The Olympic Games in their current form are like an outdated model of telephone, we must try to come up with a new Olympic Games, the Olympic ski racing champion wrote in a column on Veronica Stepanova .
The Paris Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to August 11.
— Dear Dima Guberniev, why not join forces and devote our abilities to campaigning for the creation of something completely new? What? Incredibly difficult, you say? Even without the scale of the current Olympics, it’s still a huge investment that only the truly wealthy can afford. But Ted Turner left at some point, didn’t he? And he created the Goodwill Games, securing his place in history. How many people can do this now? No, but they exist. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, for example. Or Elon Musk. Do you happen to have his phone number?
It annoys me (if you like, exasperates me) that we have been discussing for two years whether we were going to Paris, when they tell us in the West: we are not expecting you and do not want to see you. Instead, we could knock on the doors of those ten people around the world who can organize and fund an alternative. Preferably in Russia, but not necessary. There are many ambitious billionaires in China, the Arab world and even Turkey.
Mohammed bin Salman builds the best ski resort in the world in Saudi Arabia. And he will build it, without a doubt.
The Goodwill Games 2.0 will not cost billions like the Olympic Games, because competitions can and should only take place in truly popular sports. And there is no need to gather crowds: did you know, for example, that there were up to three hundred skiers at the Beijing Olympics? At the same time, almost all the gold and silver were won by the Norwegians and Russians. Well, why this gathering of extras on the ski slope when three dozen of the best are enough?
The Olympic Games in their current form increasingly resemble a station that has become outmoded, an outdated telephone model. It still works, but not the same. It used to be that everyone wanted it, but now the name is recognizable, but the interest is disappearing more and more. That’s why they build new resorts and release new phones. And we all need to come together and try to create a “new Olympics”. For the 21st century,” Stepanova wrote in a column on .
In February 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) recommended that sports federations not allow Russians and Belarusians to participate in international tournaments. Later, the recommendations were relaxed and in December 2023, IOC head Thomas Bach announced that the organization would allow Russian and Belarusian athletes who passed the selection process for the 2024 Summer Olympics into a status individual neutral. Athletes will be able to perform in Paris without a flag, anthem and other national symbols.
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