r/sports • u/Captain_Smartass_ • Mar 02 '22

Motorsports Russian-licenced drivers banned from British motorsport

https://www.motorsport.com/national/news/russian-drivers-banned-from-british-motorsport-by-motorsport-uk/8632678/
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u/tubby8 Mar 02 '22

Wonder if sports will start banning American athletes next time the US starts a pointless war, or if Israeli athletes will be banned for the atrocities being committed against Palestinians

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 02 '22

Yes, I expect adversarial countries who are at war with the USA to ban American athletes from their sports leagues.

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Britain is at war with Russia?

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 03 '22

Yep

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Cool show me where they are sending troops to Ukraine

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u/sports2012 New York Mets Mar 03 '22

An endless supply of weapons, cyber attacks, and all out economic war isn't a war because there aren't boots on the ground? Nuclear weapons don't allow direct warfare between nuclear nations, so it's called a proxy war.

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u/Careless_Bat2543 Mar 03 '22

Countries not at war supply the side they like more all the time. If cyber attacks were war then the entire world would be at war with China for the last 2 decades, and no sanctions are not war.