FIFA will ban Russia and its teams, ejecting the country from qualifying for the 2022 World Cup

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[Irish_Dem]

1. Will the Olympics finally have the courage to ban the Russians who drug their children athletes?

[Raven123]

2. It's about time. FIFA and the IOC are embarrassments

[jcgoldie]

3. I guess rubles are not going as far with FIFA as they were before

Guess the sanctions are working

[Stinky The Clown]

5. OR . . . . . . The recipients of said rubles see their value as becoming inadequate

[leftieNanner]

4. They must have gotten a lot of blowback

Because initially FIFA did not ban Russia.

Good.

[muriel_volestrangler]

8. As well as the countries with imminent games against Russia, others were joining them

eg Poland was scheduled to play them in March, and if Russia won that, then either Sweden or Czech Republic, and all 3 had said they wouldn't play. Then other countries that might potentially play them in Qatar (which is bad enough as a host country ...) started saying 'no', like England and Wales. A continued headache like that was just too much, it seems. Plus maybe sponsors had started to put pressure on - the finals are run for advertising.

[leftieNanner]

10. This is great news!

This is how it gets done.

[Scrivener7]

6. MUCH better decision than yesterday's!

[bullwinkle428]

7. Proof that POS Putin was strategic in waiting for Olympics to end before

starting attack on Ukraine. His athletes would have been banned from the games if he'd moved earlier.

[3catwoman3]

9. This is more like it!

Quite the turnaround from yesterday.