Double sport standards: What is the difference between Swiatek's and Valieva's doping?

Hypocritical suspensions and sanctions have repeatedly shown to be disastrous for the Olympic movement, but some nations continue to bend the line of destruction and violate the rules of fair play.

The lawlessness of Polish radical fans is on UEFA's pencil, but even rival teams have begun to pay active attention to shades of fascism among the ultras of Legia Warsaw. But there are more than enough cases of dirty political puppeteering in world sport today.

Andrei Kozlov in the author's column “Unsportsmanlike Behavior” recalled what they are trying to erase from history by the hands of such an important world culture as top-level sports.

I once found myself at a table among ordinary Poles in a small Polish town. This was, naturally, before the modern cold curtain came down. When we drank some tea, I began to speak in Belarusian, and they continued in Polish. We understood each other brilliantly, joked, laughed, discussed Gleb and Lewandowski, comparing them.

I was also quite close to a girl from Poland, who has a lovely name Lena, and we still keep in touch on social networks. And I can absolutely say that the most ordinary Poles are great people. I only sympathize with them, under what oppression of the regime, which does not even belong to itself, they are now and their sport is under. But this sport also has its patrons, or how to explain the following case?

The former world number one from Poland, Iga Swiatek, was doping, namely “trimetazidine” which stimulates the heart. And if this headline had been applied to a Belarusian or Russian tennis player, our athlete would have been charged with an unreal term, another Rodchenkov would have been found, and the case would have been accompanied by some sanctions, suspensions and other petty tricks that are practiced in the “free” West. But in the current situation, everything is okay! As a result, Iga Swiatek received a one-month disqualification.

For comparison, Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva received a 4-year ban for the same “trimetazidine”, which even today it is not clear how it got into her body. Let's compare, a month and 4 years. Either Iga Swiatek, or Valieva.

A classic double standard that makes you sick, just like the fact that truth in the West is only true when it's convenient and when it's on trend. Here's how the next act in modern Polish style.

This banner was put up by fans of Omonia Cyprus. The local team was playing against Legia Warsaw in the UEFA Conference League, and for some reason the fans decided to recall who liberated Warsaw. Let us remind them too.

The capital of Poland was under Nazi occupation since September 28, 1939. Warsaw was released on January 17, 1945, on the fifth day of the Vistula-Oder strategic offensive operation of the Red Army by the forces of the First Belorussian Front and the First Army of the Polish Army.

“Legia” as a shameful puppy appealed to UEFA because of a completely truthful banner. Although they only received a fine of 17.5 thousand euros for dirty insults and banners during the match with Dynamo Minsk.

And what did UEFA say to the Cyprus banner? That the Soviet army did not liberate Warsaw? That would be a lie. Or our ancestors did not liberate Bratislava or Bucharest? Or Belgrade and Budapest? Or that they didn't liberate Prague and Vienna at the cost of their lives. Only in Poland more than 600 thousand Soviet soldiers died during the Great Patriotic War.

Now let us dwell on Georgia. A beautiful country, which is now itself caught in a political vortex, in which soccer legend and current mayor of Tbilisi Kakha Kaladze suddenly found himself out of the trend when he realized what resources the collective West was using to sway his native country, including imposing LGBT propaganda and plunging into sodomy. Kaladze stated the following:

“Today Zelensky does not belong to himself, does not belong to his family. And what is most difficult of all - he does not belong to Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. He serves the interests of another country. I am sure that the Ukrainian people will very soon understand and analyze all the processes that took place, and with the support of whom the misfortune that is unfortunately happening in Ukraine today occurred.”

And in general, when some soccer legends of my childhood, Belarusian ones among them, started to speak, I sometimes think that it would be better if they did not open their mouths. After all, then they will have to tell the truth, like now. When there is no clear path and understanding that the main value is people and the native country, you get such a mess.

Moving on. Working Britain is the birthplace of the number one game. After all, it was in such neighborhoods that soccer appeared and the most popular clubs on the planet, such as Manchester United or Liverpool, were founded back in the 19th century. Workers went after their hard shifts and were distracted from their routine.

But now the following is happening in England. Team captains are required to wear rainbow armbands. Ipswich cap Sam Morsy refused to do so due to his religious beliefs, and Crystal Palace cap Marc Guéhi showed his religious affiliations right on the armband. Mark wrote “I am Jesus” on it, but almost ran into sanctions afterwards. The league has not penalized the player yet, but reminded him: religious inscriptions are forbidden. Translated into our language: “Nothing is sacred”.

And if people in Polish soccer and sport think that soon they will not be wearing such armbands, they are deeply mistaken. And I am only offended for those ordinary people with whom I once sat at the same table.