Wimbledon's banning of individual Russians and Belarusians doesn’t make a lot of sense, writes realaxelfoley
Not a sight Wimbledon fans will be seeing this year. Photo: Chine Nouvelle/SIPA/Shutterstock Wimbledon, the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world, announced on Wednesday that it would ban all Russian and Belarusian players from competing this year, becoming the most high-profile sports event to take such a stand on individual athletes amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which Belarus supports.
Most bans of Russians in sports since the invasion have taken place at the team level and are considerably easier to justify. The members of Russia’s now-banned World Cup squads, for instance, compete on a global stage specifically to represent a country that is now a pariah in the West. Then there’s the matter of the players’ actual opinions about the war. While few, if any, have directly criticized the Russian government, players including Sabalenka and Azarenka have extended their sympathies to Ukraine and called for peace. During the first week of the war, Rublev memorably wrote “No to war” on a camera.
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