nonzero chance that neither the World Cup nor the 2028 Summer Olympics take place in the United States the way things are going
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Lesley Ryder
Five players, and thirteen staff members from the Senegalese basketball team have been denied visas to the US.
The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.
The team is here to prepare for the upcoming Afrobasket tournament.
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(I say this as someone who was really looking forward to watching some of the kayaking and fencing events in person.)
IOC won't care as long as it doesn't affect their revenue too much, and Senegal, etc isn't bringing 10+ figure exclusive media deals.
#USDemocracy
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-nazi-olympics-berlin-1936
There's still hope!
Because he really loves and appreciates Mexicans.
USA USA USA
Yesterday state department allowed J and H for physicians entering for training. Thank goodness
We aren't doing that.
Dictators caring about how their rule is perceived outside isn't new. For whatever reason, Trump is the type of autocrat who thinks garish displays of wealth and naked armed force are the only things he needs to project.
https://bsky.app/profile/davidrafferty.bsky.social/post/3lplgqtd4x22p
What he'll likely do is make special exceptions for the athletes and for the spectators who are powerful and wealthy enough to "matter". It makes dictators feel /really/ powerful when they do stuff like that.
Olympics probably happen unless the US is in a hot civil war by then, which those odd are also very much non-zero.
Sponsors are gonna be kinda pissed if half the competition doesn't actually happen.
But the Qatari government understood the concept of "this competition is coming to your country, if you deport half of the competitors there won't be a competition and that's REALLY gonna piss off the sponsors".
Miller doesn't care.
AfroBasket tournament begins July 26 with 12 teams.
Senegal is not permitted here to practice basketball but Japan is allowed to come here to practice softball.
Got it.
I hope the upcoming internationals do not come here; i.e. Rugby, Soccer, pre-Olympic trainings.
Qatar understood the needs of the competition (and moreso the sponsors thereof) whereas Miller doesn't care.
He struggled w my take that WC might not happen or be very compromised. It is worse faster than I even thought.
1984: Russia boycotts US Olympics
2028: Only Russia attends US Olympics
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Iran is the one country I know of that has a travel ban and has qualified, so far.
Especially if those athletes dare to be brown while also performing better than white Americans
give it to a free country
but there are going to be boycotts for sure, especially by the time we hit 2028 - should be full on international pariah status by then
I wouldn't put it past... us.
FIFA not going to budge. They will convince themselves they don’t need tourists because US is so large.
IOC could find a backbone but it sounds ridiculous even saying it.
Getting banned from the world cup one tournament after hosting it
What we need are some journalists posing questions to the IOC and the LAOOC right about now
Editor's Note: It wasn't.
then again, i just ate a garlic cashew i found in my bra. so, i may not be a reliable political speculatrix here.
Honda, and NBC not exactly favored corporations
They fucking should though.
(God, we live in such stupid times.)