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Because he's Russian , he's not allowed to compete. Which I think is wrong. I see Russian athletes being punished , just like the rest of the Russian population , because they have some murdering A-hole in charge over there. Bobry has been in this sport a very long time , has always seemed like a great dude , and he rips on a dirt bike.
Honestly , I think this is bullshit.
Honestly , I think this is bullshit.
Moving along...
You can tell 4 million people who have fled to other countries because their homes and lives been bommed or thousands innocent people who have been executed by war criminals, that one guy needs to have his rights to race?
Reality here in Europe and being border neighbor is different.
Im sure Bobby has nothing to do with it but he can race next year as others lost their lives.
Why is our sport doing it?
The Shop
Have you seen the pictures and read the reports from Bucha?
Bobry has made a career of traveling the world racing dirt bikes. He , just like many Russian's probably don't want anything to do with this damn war. This is just freakin' stupid , and also very wrong in my eyes. Wouldn't showing the world a Non-biased approach in our sport ( like many other's have done ) show that we can tell the difference from an athlete / normal person , from their dictator leader?
Why punish someone individually , just because they were born in a different country? Isn't that pretty much painting everyone with the same huge brush?
What happens when we do that? What happens when you paint everyone as evil or bad , just because they come from a certain country? This is total bullshit , and in my eyes should be crime on an international level.
This shit pisses me off! Keep this God damn political shit out of our sport is all I ask.
If that pisses you off , you should be saying that to the FIM , AMA pro racing and MX sports.
They all seem to be in agreement to banning Russian athletes.
I understand the logic behind not liking how individual Russian athletes are treated right now but i disagree. Take public stance against Putin and the people supporting him and we can talk. Otherwise, too bad.
Google Massacre in Bucha. Google Russian support in Germany. Google history of sport in Russia. People has to wake up and stop thinking there is only one guy to blame (people are starting to realize that now). The Russian athletes will be "collateral casualties" in the fight against the dictatorship, terrorists and rapists. It sucks for those who oppose this but that is a price they unfortunately will have to pay for the greater good.
I do feel bad for Bobby if he truly opposes the regime and its enablers. Anyways, this is the last post from me on this topic.
https://fim-northamerica.com/notices/fim-north-america-concurs-fim-reco…
I understand your frustration but we can't put a few athletes above the atrocities suffered daily by citizens of the Ukrainian.
Can anyone rationally tell me what that achieves, or how it is going to have any effect on the situation over there?
Pit Row
Professional sport is big business, and business is under sanction. Follow the money, our tax dollars are funding Ukraine weapons, and Bob's tax dollars? are potentially funding the Russian invasion.
Did anyone see the Suadi formula 1 race? It didn't make big news, Iranian backed Houthi rebels bombed an oil depot next to the track. Our tax dollars are funding the proxy war through the Saudi regime that won't pump for oil for us, so now we are looking to Iran for more oil. 2 month cease fire.
What a mess the world is in, a few become mega rich and many innocent people no different than us, suffer and die.
Not sure if you’ve heard but it has happened in other sports, F1, soccer.
As a country Russia needs to be isolated.
Putin and Russia takes great pride in Russian athletes competing internationally and uses it in the media to portray that what they’re doing to Ukraine is fine.
Amongst other reasons:
Their shonky media can’t re-hash it any other way if their athletes are all of a sudden banished from competing everywhere.
It’s motocross we aren’t other sports and that’s why we are awesome together.
Bobby is well liked by everyone. If he said he supports Putin for sure, but does he?
Persecution is a shit thing. War is a shit thing.
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