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Originally Posted by llama64
Just IOC acting like the rich old white guys that make up their members.
How else do you call attention and attempt change then to drag the parties through a highly publicized lawsuit? They aren't being given much option to do anything else here...
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It would be helpful if they brought the suit in a court that had jurisdiction. The Canadian courts have no ability to apply the Charter to the IOC, this is a case that's calling for a massive change to Charter application and doing so on an incredibly abbreviated timeline. Like I said, it's not an issue with the goal it's an issue with the means chosen to achieve it.
I'm also not sure it's going to help their cause going forward. The next Olympics are in Russia, and I'm not so sure that Russian law is going to find a way to accomplish what Canadian law cannot. If they'd sued the right party in the right court they would have obtained the same publicity and actually had a chance of succeeding. As it is they've garnered a bit of attention and done little more than spin their tires.
I don't know much about the IOC's decision making process in this case, but I don't like the idea that parties can force their sports in by legal means. If there's a legitimate basis for keeping a sport out, here the claim is lack of competition, it shouldn't be overruled. If the basis is purely discriminatory that's another discussion, but I think you'd be pretty hard pressed to make that case.