International sport becomes tool for politicians

These days, even the world sport has become entirely political. Our team was absolutely groundlessly deprived by the International Biathlon Union of the right to use the national anthem and flag at competitions and even deprived of the opportunity to score points in the Nations Cup. Tell me, what did Smolsky and the company do wrong? The same decision was made for Russia. Of course, the teams did not tolerate such attitude and went back home. This season's World Cup was finished ahead of schedule. The leader of the men's team Anton Smolsky called the IBU decision a provocation.

On the whole, the conflict in Ukraine is now used by the sports officials of various fields as an occasion to remind about themselves or to fulfill somebody's order.

The Heads of Federations of Latvia and Finland demand for Belarus and Russia to be excluded from the international hockey family and not be allowed to the nearest World Cup. Let's see if the IIHF will listen to them? At this point, we already know about the accomplished facts of political madness in sports. There will be no Belarusians and Russians in the remaining World Cup cross-country skiing, yesterday's freestyle event in Yaroslavl was canceled. More restrained sports officials from other sports have so far postponed competitions involving Belarusians in handball and basketball.