Speed ​​Skating - Sport and politics
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Debate & egrave; harsh and probably not & egrave; closed permanently. Perch & eacute ;, as often & egrave; happened & ndash; we are almost sure that will happen & agrave; in the future - & nbsp; & nbsp sports and politics; s & rsquo; hopelessly intertwined. Cos & Igrave ;, reports gi & agrave; thesis and controversy gi & agrave; high have sharpened between & nbsp; Holland & nbsp; and & nbsp; Russia, when & egrave; was feared the possibility & agrave; & nbsp; & nbsp boycott; & ndash; alternatively "refuse" - & nbsp; the next European Allround (scheduled for 10 and 11 January 2015) to & nbsp; Chelyabinsk. Hypothesis advanced & nbsp; by some members of the Dutch team of & nbsp; speed skating.
Friday 12 December 2014 10 minutes reading time
Alarm for the moment & ndash; sar & agrave; final? & Ndash; returned from the official statement by the Dutch Federation of skating.
L & rsquo; & egrave that event; prelude to this page sports-political & egrave; sadly tragic and known to all. & Egrave; Party with the crisis between the two countries in the summer, when on 17 July, l & rsquo; airliner MH17 Malaysian Airlines from Amsterdam, rushed & ograve; in & rsquo; s East & rsquo; Ukraine, 50 km from the Russian border. By the crash to the floor of the Boeing 777 were killed all 297 passengers, many of them & ndash; 197 - of nationalities & agrave; Dutch. L & rsquo; investigation on & rsquo; happened realized by the Dutch Safety Board appur & ograve; that the aircraft was shot down by some & ldquo; & rdquo objects; projected from & rsquo; outside. L & rsquo; area from which would leave these explosives, was under the control of pro-Russian separatist conflict with the & rsquo; Ukrainian army. From here the exchange of accusations between the two neighboring countries. And Russia, according to the Ukrainians, would have a responsibility & agrave; coordination in plausible abatement Boeing as supplied missiles capable of breaking down the & rsquo; airliner. Allegations always returned to the senders. L & rsquo; investigation that includes six countries, international, non & egrave; yet come to a final conclusion of the story.
Cos & Igrave; the voltage from the bloody July 17 & ndash; never dormant & ndash; & Egrave; back on top of the chronicles d & rsquo; Holland (and perci & ograve; also sports) because & eacute; the next European Championships Allround & nbsp; will be held in the CITY Siberian Chelyabinsk, on 10 and 11 January 2015. On the one hand, there & rsquo; & egrave; the number one power in the world of speed skating: l & rsquo; Holland. And from & rsquo; the other world power & ndash; not only sports & ndash; and the host country of the Championships, Russia. It seems unfortunately not only a challenge against the clock and an opponent to be advanced in time or in the scores.
The controversy & egrave; unleashed a week ago and has had a growing inexorably. Everything & egrave; when the party & rsquo; coach of Team Corendon (a leading Dutch club teams), Jan van Veen, announced his deep unease about l & rsquo; argument and perci & ograve; would not have gone to Chelyabinsk. His athlete Marrit Leenstra, cos & Igrave; as a & rsquo; other skater of the first order as Ireen Wü; st, had speculated l & rsquo; eventualit & agrave; not to participate, just because of & rsquo; s & rsquo abatement; plane MH17, as their main reason for considering a boycott. On another you & egrave; then also pronounced the champion skater pi & ugrave; famous in the world in business & agrave ;, Sven Kramer. In one & rsquo; interview with the Dutch newspaper & ldquo; & rdquo ;, De Telegraaf said: & ldquo; I am an athlete who tries to work hard. But if you ask me personally an opinion, I would prefer that these Championships were held in a & rsquo; elsewhere. Obviously it's a dilemma. And I understand very well that & egrave; a very sensitive topic & rdquo ;. He called all & rsquo; appeal the International Skating Union (ISU) in order that & eacute; make a decision. In the meantime, had taken over the line of the & ldquo; freedom & agrave; conscientious & rdquo; for its athletes: this had been said in the days immediately following, the Federation oranje, on the decision whether or not to show up in Russia.
Jan Dijkema vice president of & rsquo; ISU had tried to throw water on the fire of a controversy flared up: & ldquo; It & rsquo; wise to keep sport and politics separate. I see no need & agrave; moving the European Championship & rdquo ;. But before his intervention, c & rsquo; it was the tough stance of those who declared: & ldquo; A boycott threatened or an actual boycott of several skaters or coaches must be a reason for a possible disqualification Dutch & rdquo ;. This had been the threat of Andrej Vahutin, Vice President of the Russian Federation Skating (MSW): he had used a language considered too & ldquo; strong & rdquo; to express his disagreement with the behavior of the Dutch.
Thursday on Igrave; the final decision. The Dutch Skating Federation (KNSB), in consultation with the coaches of the teams pi & ugrave; important, decided not to boycott the Europeans Chelyabinsk. Arie Koops, sporting director Federal, reiterated the decision today. Stating that the sport, through the decisions to participate or not to an event, should stay out of business and political games. & Ldquo; The athletes must be able to focus primarily on performance - said Koops & ndash; and touches the top of international sport ensure the selection of a host country that guests generally also accepted norms and values ​​& rdquo ;. While reiterating the & rsquo; attention and the pleasure of the Federation in supporting the debates on & rsquo; union between social values ​​present in the countries that host large events.
The situation seems to "controlled". The Dutch team not attuer & agrave; no official boycott towards the & rsquo; European Russia in January. This is without prejudice to the will & ograve ;, & agrave; to leave room for the autonomous decisions of the athletes. So for now, between the safeties from here in a month, you know that will be played the next Dutch Allround Championships, scheduled for December 27 and 28 in Heerenveen. In that & rsquo; occasion & ndash; other certainty - the skaters will also compete to pull a ticket for the next European Championships. The final team will & agrave; announced on December 29th. There will be all right?
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