#alsooooo while fact checking this post it seems even the davis cup banned south africa

[muirneach]

i am pro banning israel from the olympics obviously so this isn’t debating that but one thing about me is i am always thinking about logistics. so if the ioc did ban them…. would the israeli athletes join ain. ie, would they and the russians and belarusians be put in the same category. because that feels crazy to me. yet surely they would not separate them into multiple neutral categories because that defeats the purpose i think? or would they just be like. banned point blank without ain option. because like when south africa was banned the ioc didn’t have neutral competitors did they? which makes me wonder why russian athletes are allowed at all right now even if under the neutral flag. but whatever there were probably many hours of debate that was had over that decision at the ioc so i’m sure they had their reasons. i guess