[_ciz9]

Excellent point. Since the Ancient Olympics, the Games were a period of truce. Any ongoing conflict was suspended. It was almost the only time where any disputes would be postponed for a later time.

And we're talking about an actual war, not some political disagreement. Those athletes would probably try to kill each other the next month or so.

It's really sad that people take advantage of such a great event to gain attention for different causes, even if those causes are right. It happens every single time.

Countries will always have disagreement no matter what. Save those for a later time. Not the Olympics.

[lostlogin]

Perhaps with ancient Olympics - the modern games have been cancelled by wars a few times (depends how you count, are winter games counted?), have had heaps of boycotts (how do you count boycotts? By country, by issue? By year?) and have been attacked a few times - the Atlanta, Salt Lake and Munich games. I don't think you could call the modern Olympics a period of truce, it's more of a lightning rod for current issues.