Fuck that was brutal. Good!
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Reuters Artilce Link about the broadcaster pulling the footage because of the commentary.
Fuck yeah, journalism.
Completely and professionally dismantles the fucker, and then ends it by basically saying, “so anyways, he placed 26th.” That whole statement was just dripping with utter disdain. Just amazing. Meanwhile, the US is literally being run by fucking Mossad at this point. I hate it here.
That was hilarious. Explaining what a piece of shit the guy is for the entirety of their run while remaining calm and professional....the announcer deserves a medal
The only thing that would have been better is if the broadcast cut away to show footage of Gaza for most of the run, while occasionally showing the sport for contrast.
This happened on the Swiss state-run news service. Which has been biased pro-Israel.
So there was no chance of that happening.
I’m pleasantly surprised the commentator hasn’t been fired (yet)! It was also really amazing how they managed to stay calm and composed and just recite facts lol.
Also the swiss right wing media has gone on a frenzy calling it anti-semetic.
Ah right, so this was one employee who went rogue, and not an approved part of the planned broadcast? Very brave man!
The swiss broadcaster pulled the clip: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/feb/17/swiss-broadcaster-pulls-olympic-commentary-questioning-presence-of-israeli-bobsledder
Either they should ban israel and america from olympics and fifa or they should apologize to russian atheletes. Absolutely shameful double standards
Russia at least was originally banned not for political reasons, but because of systemic cheating among their athletes. I saw someone say that that's changed and the reason the ban continues is politics. I'm not sure. But if it was entirely about the doping, I would think that the IOC has a reasonable stance.
But broadcasters can and absolutely should do more things like this video. Use the Olympics as an opportunity to humiliate countries and athletes like Israel and their bobsledder for their involvement in war crimes including genocide.
I dont see the logic behind banning whole country except for politics, that too around the same time they started a war.
Well, russians are also in the same bucket. Still can compete, still can demonstrate their fascist symbols
Yep. Letting the Russians and Israelis to compete is legitimising what their countries are doing.
If a country is in a war/genocide etc, like Russia and Israel, then their athletes shouldn't be able to compete.
However, if the athletes change nationalities then they should be able to compete for the new country. But the athletes will lose any medals or Olympic records if they change back to their original nationality.
Show me Russia in the 2026 Winter Olympics rn
Nevermind the downvotes. Reading comprehension is a skill in steep decline.
There’s 13 athletes from Russia.
They may not get a flag, but they still are competing and very much Russian.
Russia has 13 athletes in the 2026 winter olympics.
https://www.rbc.ru/sport/28/01/2026/6979b0519a79479a8e33bb72
That was well prepared. Lots of criticism crammed into just the time of the run itself and went straight back to sports matters afterwards.
Absolutely badass. People like this with this kind of courage will be remembered.
They were allowed because the Olympic Comitee is corrupt as hell and they don't really give a fuck about war crimes.
The IOC is in french speaking Switzerland so it's a criticism coming from close to home.
There were Olympics during WWII. If you aren't cheating you can compete. It's always been this way, it's supposed to be just about the games.
Except as he explained in the video, Russians who support the war effort are banned as was a Ukranian who had a tribute to kia Ukranians on his helmet. It’s the double standard.
The ukrainian wasn't even banned outright. The IOC even offered a lot of concessions, he would have been allowed to wear the helmet before, during the medal ceremony, on the podium, basically everywhere except during the actual run. He disregarded all compromises.
Russians just got banned.
Pissraelis can do whatever.
No, there is supposed to be a truce during the games. And in WWI and II there were consequences:
The earliest Olympic bans followed World War I, when Germany, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey were excluded from the 1920 Games for their roles in the conflict. Germany’s ban continued through 1924. After World War II, Germany and Japan were again barred from participating in the 1948 Olympics.
https://www.newsweek.com/countries-banned-winter-olympics-2026-11461212
Link to article?
He is the brother of comedian Alex Edelman
Shame, I kinda liked Alex. He seemed to have been a genuinely nice person.
Well the question is also why russians and belorussians are allowed to compete too? They will pose as "neutral" or from other countries, despite the fact that many of them are members of russian military.
Is that a question with Israel competing? The question has become why Russian soldiers are not allowed to compete using their own flag.
Russia is banned AFAIK. They even banned a Ukrainian for putting pictures of Ukrainian soldiers who died in the war on his helmet.
Oligarchs love imperialist money. Countries like Russia, Belarus and Israel all engage in slaughter and cultural erasure but they don't care.
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