FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2014 file photo the Russian national flag, right, flies after it is hoisted next to the Olympic flag during the closing ceremony of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. The ruling on whether Russia can keep its name and flag for the Olympics will be announced on Thursday Dec. 17, 2020.
Russian athletes and teams will still be allowed to compete at next year’s Tokyo Olympics and the 2022 Winter Games in Beijing, as well as world championships including the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, if they are not implicated in doping or covering up positive tests.ADVERTISEMENT The case centered on accusations that Russian state authorities tampered with a database from the Moscow testing laboratory before handing it over to WADA investigators last year. It contained likely evidence to prosecute long-standing doping violations.
WADA investigators in Moscow eventually got the data one month late. Evidence of doping tests and emails appeared to have been deleted or changed, and whistleblowers were implicated.
So AP has made Black a proper noun (or adjective), but doesn't know its from it's. AP Strong:)
😂😂😂👍🏻
It is name. Name it is. Or is it? It is? Isn’t it? It isn’t. Unless it is. Unless it’s not. If it’s not it is.
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Yea well we are next, (America) thanks to the left it's going to be China or nothing for the foreseeable future unless we fight back.
Does Azerbaijan compete?
Is Jill Biden running your twitter page?
Ticked2020 What!! RUSSIA do something wrong at the Olympics to have their flag & anthem banned maybe for two years. I would expect that from the American Trumplician Party but certainly not the Russians!!
The Russian government, what a pox on world society.
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They are banning it is flag?
it's ? Really? Is this new AP style? 'Russia was banned from using it is name...'
Okay what did Russia do this time
That's ok...they'll just hack into the US and use theirs.
s’it
Russia hacked major government systems, & realDonaldTrump says bupkis to Putin. Now we find out Russia is testing a direct-ascent anti-satellite missile in their continued weaponization of space.
The good people of the earth told the bad people that you suck as humans and are not allowed to celebrate evil
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How about just banning them from taking part in any international event given their hacking antics.
no_itsmyturn The Olympic Committee is a joke. You can be a man, pretend you're a woman and compete against other women, but take a allergy pill and your banned for life.
BREAKING: tweet writer doesn't know difference between it's and its
That's a helluva vaccine over there
not you lot bein dem grammar police
bad English. should get a ban from writing the next few years too.
Russia is a criminal state.
Let’s ban Donald’s name and image from public life for the next two years.
WADA will do everything except actually ban the doping, cheating athletes. 🤦🏻♀️
Nye haraso Tovar is
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Sports =Politics
Just ban Russia already! Ban all mob run corrupt countries
obviously 💔
Outrageous. May you all suffer the consequences of your stupidity and your self-righteous escalations.
The best are prevented from participating
It’s a sad state when journalists don’t know it’s from its.
Vladimir is not gonna be happy about this.
Why only two year ban for world championships.
If Russia is smart they should boycott the Beijing Olympics anyway. All nations should,except for Canada because everyone knows that Trudeau is just a chew toy for China
Rebel44CZ mfa_russia fuck y’all so hard
Olympics tougher on Russia than Trump😂
USSR is back!
So they cheated and the only punishment they got was that they can't use their flag and anthem for the next two Olympics? That's almost as lax as the punishment against the Astros for cheating. Nothing! They need to be set an example of, and THEY DIDN'T!
So the punishment is banning the flag? Lol. Nice.
Y’all petty! 🤣🤣🤣
Яка сумна новина😂😂😂
Remach!
Is this the theme of the 2020s? We're going to end up at war with Russia, aren't we?
I came to see people commenting on this news I saw a bunch of people complaining about an apostrophe People are too petty these days
Only was it the punishment? After all chitting the russians imposed? Russians should be banned for once.
JonLemire How about a lifetime ban and forgetting about them?
JonLemire 'it's' from the people who brought you Jose Biden
So it was proven that Russia not only has a state-sponsored doping program, but they also had a full infrastructure to swap out dirty samples so their athletes don't test positive, and this is their punishment? Lol.
When I first learned English, one of my teachers told me that it’s hard to find any grammatical error or typo in a native English news article. That was less than 20 years ago. I guess he’s wrong now. 🤦🏽♂️
Buy the ticket, take the ride
AP can't even be bothered to use proper grammar, why are they the experts?
oh my GOD guys shut the fuck up about its vs it's already. its a typo. humans make mistakes and its not even that noticeable
Should be banned permenantly along with competing until Putin gets back on track with the world.
I don't think they will ever stop doping.
Zeb_Habs You're the AP. It's possessive 'its'. Come on. Have some respect for your own work.
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Remember when you had to know the proper use of punctuation and spelling to work for AP? It’s choices for it’s tweet artists show it’s ignorance. And you expect anyone to believe a word you say? ?
no_itsmyturn Lulz. Russia the gas station.
that should be 'its',
JonLemire
Oh, you mean the other trump flag...I can see why!
BREAKING: it’s = it is its = belonging to it
So WE can use the name of Soviet Union again, comrade.
No flag and anthem... yeah that'll really show them..
The AP misused “it’s”!
Why
Russia makes there own rules aslong as Putin Is President for the next 20 years or so. I thought Russia was trying hard to be a real democracy or maybe they are returning to the Iron curtain again. They should be banned from Olympics for life as they always will pull a fast one
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'The team formerly known as Russia.' Flag is a black sheet. Anthem is two full minutes of silence.
They'll do it anyways. Remember when they were banned from the Olympics but showed up to participate without the possibility of receiving medals? They could give two shits cuz they know there is ZERO point ZERO accountability.
Trump expected to give Medal of Freedom for their cunning manipulation of truth. Putin to accept honor
HeresYourReplay
that's it. i'm going to burn my ap stylebook after this gross misuse of apostrophes. follow me on tiktok oxfordcommalover69 to see the video
'its name...', AP. Russia was banned from using 'its' name, flag and anthem...
China
*'i't's'
its
good
Proofreader for hire
*Russi'a
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At the next Olympics they're going to do that scene from the Simpsons aren't they?