Alik Bakhshi
Putin and Russia's Sporting
Achievements
Tank Biathlon
As is well
known, the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi was Russia's last. Putin's attempt to
secure Russia's victory at any cost, using a carefully orchestrated plan to
swap athletes' urine with doping, ended disastrously. Russia was banned from
all Olympics and other international competitions. Putin, one might say, has
completely destroyed sport in Russia. Without competition, there is no sport.
It's pointless to talk about sporting achievements without participation in
competitions. This is what happened in Russia. Putin, pursuing his political
goals, decided to reinforce his victory with sporting achievements,
interpreting the Olympic victory as the national superiority of the Russian
people, defined by the infamous word "Nazism." Incidentally, Russian
Nazism is not much different from German Nazism. (1) Thus, Hitler's propaganda
explained the Germans' athletic success at the 1936 Olympics as a dominant
superiority over other nations, and not just in sports. However, it should be
noted that the Germans won the Berlin Olympics fairly, while the Russians
achieved a medal through sheer deception, and even then, they finished behind
Norway. I foresaw Putin's intention to attack Ukraine after his planned Olympic
victory in an article written four months before the annexation of Crimea:
"One
thing is clear: Russia will not invade Ukraine before the Sochi Winter
Olympics, lest it repeat the failed 1980 Moscow Olympics. Therefore, the
Ukrainians must hurry to join the EU before the end of the Sochi
Olympics." (2)
The
international sporting festival – the World Cup – has begun. Russia is not
participating in this celebration. Putin has made his country a pariah. The
country has been banished from all international competitions due to the
shameful urine-swapping scheme. The only competition Putin has organized
instead of sports is the tank biathlon.
1. 1. Who
are these Rashists? https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2022/06/blog-post_10.html
2. Ukraine
as a victim of Western immorality towards Russia.
https://samlib.ru/editors/b/bahshi_a/alikbahshi-37.shtml
3. Russia's
international disgrace.
https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_9.html
4. The
Russian Empire Has No Place at the Olympics
https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post.html
The
following is a series of articles dedicated to Russia's sporting achievements
under Putin.
Tank Biathlon Instead of the Olympics
Due to
Russia's shameful exclusion from the Olympics (1, 2), the Kremlin has devised
another form of international competition – a military one. From now on,
Russians compete in the art of killing. So, instead of Olympic competitions,
Russia holds annual world tank competitions, the number of which is off the
charts in the country, the so-called "Tank Biathlon." This
competition is about who can best use military equipment – tanks, planes, and missiles – to kill people. Not a day goes by
without the idiot box showing something about military service or the
development of cutting-edge military technology that leaves Western competitors
far behind.
It seems
that Russia produces nothing to improve people's lives, except weapons of
murder. While in America, peaceful private companies are successfully launching
rockets into space, planning to take tourists to the Moon and Mars, in Russia
they're still using space technology from the last century. They don't even
dream of reaching the Moon anymore. Meanwhile, militarization and war
propaganda are rampant, reminiscent of pre-war Nazi Germany. It's noteworthy
that Russia is already preparing young children as cannon fodder for war,
dressing them in soldiers' uniforms.
1. Russia's
international disgrace.
https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post_9.html
2. The
Russian Empire has no place at the Olympics. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/12/blog-post.html
1.10. 2020
Mutko's Urine as
a Symbol of Russian Sport
On December 31, 2018, the ultimatum issued by the
International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Council to ensure
access to samples from the Moscow anti-doping laboratory expired, after which
Russian athletes will be barred from participating in international
competitions. This circumstance clearly points to the state's culpability,
represented by then-Minister of Sport Mutko, in the mass doping of Russian
athletes with banned substances, which they used to achieve record-breaking
results. Moreover, it was discovered that state agencies, including the FSB,
were involved in swapping urine samples to conceal the violations. Henceforth,
samples containing Mutko's swapped urine are a national treasure and a hallmark
of Russian sport. Mutko's urine is a symbol of Russia's sporting achievements.
Naturally, without instructions from Putin, who, like
Nazi Hitler (1), uses sport for propaganda purposes, Minister Mutko would not
have dared to force athletes to use doping. It's also absolutely clear that
Putin cannot allow international experts to test the samples stored in the
laboratory, otherwise he will face shame. Furthermore, the ultimatum also
includes a clause mandating punishment for those responsible for a crime that,
by all laws, is nothing less than criminal, which is unacceptable to Putin (2).
After all, if the case goes to court, there's no guarantee that Mutko won't
crack. That's why, despite Russia's phenomenal achievements at the Sochi
Olympics, Putin stripped Mutko of his ministerial post and stripped Russian
athletes of their right to participate in international competitions.
1. Hitler's ghost haunts Europe.
https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2018/04/blog-post.html
2. Putin is a criminal.
https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2018/12/12.html
08.01.2019.
The Russian
Empire has no place at the Olympics.
The Russian Empire was banned from the 2018 Winter
Olympics due to doping administered to Russian athletes at the 2014 Sochi
Olympics, at Putin's instigation. Their success was intended to boost Russia's
international prestige, which had declined with the collapse of the USSR.
According to Putin's plan, victory at the Sochi Olympics was supposed to secure
his popularity as a caring leader worthy of the people's love and respect. Yes,
Putin needed popular support before his planned return of Ukraine to the imperial
fold, with the help of his protégé Yanukovych. Incidentally, I warned about
this strategic goal of Putin's long before the insidious attack on Ukraine
began (1, 2). True, not everything went smoothly: due to the Maidan, the
traitor Yanukovych was forced to flee, and instead of all of Ukraine, Putin was
left with only Crimea and Donbas. Ukrainian patriots managed to suppress the
rebellion in Kharkiv and Odesa. Of course, the Russian people, known for their
imperial worldview, favor President Putin, ignoring the fact that lies and
evil, which have already become Putin's calling card, are punishable.
Everything has a price; that's just the way the world works.
And today, Russian athletes are paying the price for
deceiving their beloved president. The WADA Committee recommended that the
organization's Executive Committee ban Russia from international sporting
competitions for four years. The fact is that Russia failed to comply with all
the requirements regarding providing data from the Moscow anti-doping
laboratory to experts, and the data that was provided turned out to be altered,
which was naturally noticed. As a result, as expected, the very status of the
Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) was put at risk. In short, until Russia
acknowledges the McLaren report, Russian athletes will not be able to
participate in international competitions. In an interview with the BBC, RUSADA
head Yuri Ganus unequivocally blamed the authorities for the current situation,
saying he knew who was specifically behind the sample swapping. Furthermore, he
made it clear he feared for his own life, citing the sudden, simultaneous
deaths of perfectly healthy RUSADA officials Sinev and Kamaev, who knew about
Putin's interference in sports. (https://www.bbc.com/russian/features-50525144)
In short, until Russia acknowledges the McLaren report,
Russian athletes cannot participate in international competitions. Putin
understands perfectly well that admitting to sample manipulation is tantamount
to admitting to a criminal offense committed by himself, because in Russia, no
one would dare commit such a large-scale crime without Putin's knowledge.
Minister Mutko and the FSB agents involved in the sample swapping are merely
executing the will of the President of All Rus'. (3,4)
Russia should be excluded from international sporting
competitions altogether, as an empire that suppresses the sovereign right of
other peoples within the empire, except for the Russians, to compete under
their national flags. For example, in the United Kingdom, the Scots and Welsh
compete in the World Cup alongside the English, each under their own national
flag.
1. Whose Crimea Is
It? https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/12/blog-post_19.html
2. Ukraine as a Victim of Western Immorality Towards
Russia. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/12/blog-post_97.html
3. Putin is a Criminal. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2018/12/12.html
4. Mutko's Urine as a Symbol of Russian Sport. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_8.html
01.12.2019
Russia's
International Shame
It has happened! Justice has finally prevailed. Putin and
his Russia have received what they deserved. No country has ever suffered such
global shame. The criminal interference in sports by St. Petersburg gangster
Putin (1,2) could not go unpunished. For the mass doping of athletes, carried
out at the direction of President Putin, and the state's cover-up of criminal
manipulation of doping samples, Russia has been suspended from all
international sporting competitions for four years. Furthermore, all state officials
in charge of sport are banned from attending sporting events. In short, the
World Anti-Doping Agency has ruled to isolate Russia for violating sporting
regulations and for deceiving Russia as a state. True, Russia had a chance to
avoid punishment and spare the fate of its athletes, but only if it admitted
guilt. However, this, for obvious reasons, was unavoidable, as Putin's criminal
role would inevitably be revealed. In a totalitarian state like Russia, nothing
can happen without Putin's knowledge. It is difficult to imagine that Minister
Mutko, especially with the involvement of the FSB, could disobey orders from
above.
There's only one conclusion to be drawn here: Putin's
Russia is a criminal state. Russia's uncovered crimes in sports are just the
beginning of a series of more serious crimes, and I wouldn't be surprised if
Putin shares Milosevic's fate. It's worth noting that the vast majority of
Russians admire how their president, using the laws of Western democracy,
brazenly lies, denying his crimes, even though, for example, it's clear without
any investigation who shot down the Malaysian Boeing. The Russian people are
simply delighted by the blatant lies of the "they-are-not-there," or
how the Kremlin maniac gets rid of people undesirable to the regime in such a
way that the West is powerless to prove anything. Putin has revived the
imperial worldview and Great Russian chauvinism inherent in the Russian people,
who had been lost after the collapse of the USSR (3). For Putin's unspoken goal
of restoring the empire within the borders of the USSR, the Russian people are
willing to endure any hardship, especially exclusion from competitions, even
though it's clear that the Russian people are the most...
I am certain that Putin is using WADA's decision to fuel
anti-Western sentiment among the people and support them in their fight against
the enemy encroaching on Russia's sovereignty.
Russia is a prehistoric lizard that has survived to this
day, and it has no place in the modern world. Ronald Reagan rightly called
Russia the Evil Empire, but today Russia can also be called the Empire of Lies
(4). Putin has clearly demonstrated that evil and lies go hand in hand.
1. Mutko's urine as a symbol of Russian sport. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2019/01/blog-post_8.html
2. Putin is a criminal. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2018/12/12.html
3. Great Russian Chauvinism, and Putin Its Führer. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/12/blog-post_20.html
4. The Empire of Lies and Its Chief Liar. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/12/blog-post_50.html
9.12. 2019
The Russian
Empire in the Olympic Results or Sports and Politics
The well-known slogan "sports outside of
politics" is true, but not in all cases. In countries with totalitarian
regimes, where no public organization, including sports organizations, can
function without the participation of the state, this slogan not only fails to
work, but, as has been revealed in Russia, it is used to cover up criminal
cases initiated by the government itself. Today, the real state of sports in
Russia is reflected in the slogan "victory at any cost." And that price
has proven high. Due to the use of doping imposed by the highest sports
authorities, under the patronage of the FSB, some athletes lost the right to
participate in the 2016 Olympics. It is difficult to imagine that Sports
Minister Mutko was unaware of the ongoing top-secret operation, for which his
department served as a cover. Otherwise, why would the state need it at all?
Sports Minister
Mutko
The Ministry of Sports is the conductor of state policy
in the sports community. Incidentally, only Russia has a Ministry of Sports; in
other countries, at best, a ministry of education or culture has a sports
department. I'd like to point out that the doping scandal that erupted just
before the Olympics is only just beginning, and its consequences are likely yet
to come. In totalitarian Russia, no government official would dare take a
single step without Putin's knowledge, so it's entirely logical to assume that
athletes were doped on the eve of the 2014 Winter Olympics under President
Putin's direct orders. Putin needed to bolster his prestige ahead of Russia's
planned military invasion of Ukraine.
I'd like to boast: back in 2005, I foresaw Russia's
aggression against Georgia and Ukraine in my article "The Terrible Price
of Protecting the Rose Revolutions" (1), and in my 2006 article
"Whose Crimea Is It?" (2), I directly pointed to Russia's inevitable
seizure of Crimea. A year before Russia's attack on Ukraine, in my article
"Ukraine – a Victim of the West's Immorality Towards Russia" (3), I
wrote:
By exploiting the reluctance of Ukraine's large Russian
population to live in democracy and separatist sentiments, Putin, under the
pretext of protecting their rights, could send troops and split Ukraine,
presenting the West with a fait accompli. The main question is how willing the
West will be to swallow this bitter pill. Of course, a war won't break out over
Ukraine, Putin understands this perfectly well, but what actions, most likely
economic in nature, will follow, and are they really so terrifying for Russia?
Will the West demonstrate principledness or surrender Ukraine, as it
surrendered Chechnya, allowing Putin to brutally persecute the Chechen people?
Or will it continue to purchase Russian energy resources, opting for a purely
pragmatic approach, ignoring Sakharov's justified words that the most pragmatic
approach is a moral one. One thing is clear: Russia will not invade Ukraine
before the Sochi Winter Olympics, lest it repeat the failed 1980 Moscow
Olympics. Therefore, Ukrainians must hurry to join the EU before the Sochi
Olympics.
The fact that Russia attacked Ukraine after the Sochi
Olympics, and not before, already points to a direct connection between
politics and sports in Russia. Previously, due to Russia's backward policies,
it was kicked out of the G8. Now it's the athletes' turn. The involvement of
Russian athletes in Putin's political ambitions has resulted in personal
tragedy for each of them. By banning all Russian track and field athletes from
the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, Russia has been shown where it belongs. It seems Russia
will soon have no place in polite society at all.
Now I want to focus on the broader impact of the
political situation in the Russian Empire on sports in general.
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has never
won a Summer Olympics. Moreover, in the last two Olympics, Russia has not
finished higher than fourth. The main reason is that a large number of medals
were won by the nations of the former Soviet Union, which, with the collapse of
the USSR, gained the opportunity to independently participate in international
sporting competitions.
Table 1: Results of the 2016 Summer Olympics
|
Former USSR
countries |
gold |
|
bronze |
Total Medals |
|
Russia |
19 |
18 |
19 |
56 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Uzbekistan |
4 |
2 |
7 |
13 |
|
Kazakhstan |
3 |
5 |
9 |
17 |
|
Ukraine |
2 |
5 |
4 |
11 |
|
Georgia |
2 |
1 |
4 |
7 |
|
Azerbaijan |
1 |
7 |
10 |
18 |
|
Belarus |
1 |
4 |
4 |
9 |
|
Armenia |
1 |
3 |
0 |
4 |
|
Tajikistan |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
|
Lithuania |
0 |
1 |
3 |
4 |
|
Estonia |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
Moldova |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Table 2
|
Former USSR countries |
|
|
|
Total Medals |
|
Russia |
19 |
18 |
19 |
56 |
|
Former Soviet
republics |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks to
international sporting competitions, the world learned about the existence of
Kazakhs, Turkmens, Tajiks, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, and other peoples, whose
athletes were considered Russian abroad during the Soviet era. Even today,
athletes from nations that have not yet achieved independence are considered
Russian at the Olympics. If the remaining peoples of the Russian Empire—Tatars,
Chechens, Kabardians, Dagestanis, and others—achieved independence, then I fear
the Russian Empire would not be among the top ten countries at the Olympics.
1. The terrible price of protection from rose
revolutions. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/10/blog-post_50.htm l
2. Whose Crimea is it? http://proza.ru/2008/03/23/498
3. Ukraine—a victim of Western immorality toward
Russia. https://alikbahshi.blogspot.com/2016/12/blog-post_97.html
27.08.2016
In the end, I want to say that it's good that after
the collapse of the USSR, the peoples of the former Soviet republics gained
freedom; otherwise, they wouldn't be participating in international
competitions today.
10.06. 2026
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