"Conflict in the Middle East", "the situation": the shameful Olympic silence
What is the status of the Olympic Truce right now? Does anyone remember it? IOC Napoleon Thomas Bach once wanted to unite divided Korea at the Winter Games and dreamed of winning the Nobel Peace Prize. His chosen successor, Kirsty Coventry, remains silent in these days of war, of course.
Urges Member States to observe the Olympic Truce individually and collectively, within the framework of the Charter of the United Nations, throughout the period from the seventh day before the start of the XXV Olympic Winter Games until the seventh day following the end of the XIV Paralympic Winter Games, to be held in Milano-Cortina in 2026, in particular, to ensure the safe passage, access and participation of athletes, officials and all other accredited persons taking part in the Olympic Winter Games and the Paralympic Winter Games, and to contribute through other appropriate measures to the safe organization of the Games.
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations on 19 November 2025, Olympic Truce resolution, A/RES/80/8
So let's talk about the war waged by corrupt buddies Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu against Iran and the mullah regime. A war contrary to international law. Hardly anyone else in sport talks about it in public. Especially not the IOC. They just observe, it is claimed. There is no real official statement from the International Olympic Committee on the current breach of the Olympic Truce. Strange, isn't it?
Duck and run away.
So, after Trump's buddy, the Olympic host Vladimir Putin, broke the Olympic Truce four times (2008, 2014, 2022 and 2026), the Olympic host for 2028 is now breaking it.
Here, the Special Military Operation; there, Operation Epic Fury.
The IOC accepts everything. It ducks away and observes.
Under president Thomas Bach and his successor Kirsty Coventry, whom Bach hoisted into office, the IOC has done everything it can to downplay Russia's war of destruction in Ukraine as some kind of regrettable conflict, supposedly just one of many, and to distort the truth beyond recognition. Let's not forget: Russia was never suspended from the Olympics because of its war in Ukraine. Because, as we all know, athletes from warmongering nations should not suffer under the orders of their presidents.
