Don't Pollute the Spirit of Sports

The main purpose of all sports organizations, especially the Olympic games; To help establish a better and peaceful world by educating all the peoples of the world in a spirit of mutual understanding and friendship.

It is everyone's active duty to choose the best in a peaceful environment and to provide an environment where even the losers applaud the winners in the organization where the friendship and competition of countries and peoples of the countries are reflected with each other, with the awareness of the sports spirit.

The International Olympic Committee, FIFA, UEFA, FIBA and similar sports federations have unconditionally opposed the intervention of politics in sports for years in order to preserve the peaceful and competitive environment in sports, and have given different penalties to countries / teams / individuals who cannot distinguish between politics and sports.

The harshest punishment among these; banning the country in question from international competitions at regular intervals or indefinitely without specifying a time.

Considering the harshness of the punishments, this attitude of politics blocked the way of direct intervention and the involvement of politics in sports was somehow prevented.

I am one of those who think that the purpose has been explained correctly so far and that results have been obtained due to the punishments given. Sports is a field that always drags the masses behind it at the point of determining the best, and this field should not be used as a tool for dirty work like politics.

Today, wherever there is a problem in the world, there are always political values and politicians who adhere to these values.

It is certain that the inclusion of politics in sports directly or through different issues will have some negative consequences. Whatever the reason, it is a must to keep sports clean and keep politics out of this field.

All federations, structures and individuals who have achieved this so far deserve more congratulations. Everyone who takes a fast and determined stance in preventing the possible interference of politics in sports has fulfilled their duty to keep this area clean.

Just as we oppose the intervention of politics in sports, we have to oppose and prevent possible interventions in sports in politics. Just as the act of political involvement in sports will pollute sports, we do not think that sports involved in politics remain clean.

First of all, I condemn Putin and the Russian administration for their military intervention in Ukraine, and I especially want this to be known…

… but then I do not support the hasty decision to remove all Russian teams from all events indefinitely. It is incomprehensible that those who try to prevent politics from interfering with sports attempt to interfere with sports in politics.

It was a sufficient and correct decision that the Russian teams that the affiliated sports federations initially took should play their field matches in another country. Shortly after this decision, the indefinite expulsion of all Russian teams from the organizations with a new decision shows the pressure from some places. I think there are political pressures in the pressures I call these some places, and that alone is enough to pollute the sport.

The fact that the Russian teams, who played within the rules until today, were thrown away from the ongoing events, stained the sport and became an approach contrary to the spirit of the sport at the beginning.

You can bring the administration of a country to heel with military, economic and other methods, but when you use sports as a tool, you will not get results.

It's sad to see the spirit of sport being forgotten by those inside the sport itself.

It seems that the struggle for years of politics not to interfere with sports has changed its place as sports not to interfere with politics.

My naivete in this struggle is clear enough that politics should not interfere with sports and will remain the same. I will not change my naivete when sports interfere with politics.

I'm sorry for Ukraine and the people of Ukraine, but sports should stay away from such political and political approaches.