Over the last two winder Olympics I must admit to becoming hooked! For me the winter Olympics has so many more sports that I enjoy V the Summer Olympics, I particularly love snow cross and all the snowboarding events and I secretly love all the figure skating!
So I have been very much looking forward to the opening of the 2014 games but as the time draws near and more and more news flows from Russia, I have found my heart growing a bit heavy. I am not a political person and do not think I ever really invest enough time getting all the facts on any situation to have a real opinion but all the anti gay stuff that has so publicly happened on the run up to the games just feels so wrong.
These will not be the games remembered for the amazing sporting achievements of the athletes but the games that happened at the same time Russian government and policy makers put in place new anti gay laws. So by watching them am I in part supporting these anti gay messages? Should the world say no Russian government we think this is a HUGE step backwards we don't want to play with people acting like that or should we all go along with it because we know we will have a nice time? I was very proud when we had a Russian government visit to Amsterdam, there were no big speeches, we just took down all the flags and replaced them with the bright rainbow flags of gay pride!
So I don't think I will watch this year, I will wait another four. I am curious to see what everyone else thinks. I don't think me not watching will really affect anything but maybe if viewing figures are a little lower than normal, someone somewhere will know the reason why.
So I have been very much looking forward to the opening of the 2014 games but as the time draws near and more and more news flows from Russia, I have found my heart growing a bit heavy. I am not a political person and do not think I ever really invest enough time getting all the facts on any situation to have a real opinion but all the anti gay stuff that has so publicly happened on the run up to the games just feels so wrong.
These will not be the games remembered for the amazing sporting achievements of the athletes but the games that happened at the same time Russian government and policy makers put in place new anti gay laws. So by watching them am I in part supporting these anti gay messages? Should the world say no Russian government we think this is a HUGE step backwards we don't want to play with people acting like that or should we all go along with it because we know we will have a nice time? I was very proud when we had a Russian government visit to Amsterdam, there were no big speeches, we just took down all the flags and replaced them with the bright rainbow flags of gay pride!
So I don't think I will watch this year, I will wait another four. I am curious to see what everyone else thinks. I don't think me not watching will really affect anything but maybe if viewing figures are a little lower than normal, someone somewhere will know the reason why.
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