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Originally Posted by The Yen Man
Hypothetically, if you were allowed to protest without being arrested, would the majority of the people here who want the athlete's boycotting the Olympics be willing to take 2 weeks vacation from their job, spend a couple thousand dollars of their own money and fly to Russia to protest? I somehow doubt it. And that's just people giving up a few thousand dollars in salaries / flight money. Imagine telling someone who's trained day in and day out for 4 years just to participate in the Olympics that they can't go.
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This has been said before, but can we all agree that there is a lot more than 4 years of work being put into this on the athletes part? This is a life-long endevour, most of whom will never even have sniff again.