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I understand your position completely. I take them seriously just to make it clear that they are not being logical, they are being largely emotional.

North Korea is sending troops/weapons to support Russia no? China is propping up the Russian economy and protecting it from the brunt of US and European sanctions. So you are holding them accountable too?

These are difficult questions and there is no correct answer, everyone answers to their God and their conscience. In the real world, people may vote for Hitler (and there are always people who did not) and then some of them may change their minds when they see things that they never anticipated...

So you are protesting China and North Korea playing in WTT, ITTF and Olympics as well?

Some athletes who have no family in Russian/Belarus have. But for people with family and people without sufficient wealth, that is very risky. You can get family members killed. Again, this is not how the world works. It's not like table tennis players are millionaires.

This is how the real world works, I feel your pain, but it is not an argument against how the real world works. I am okay with your issues with Vlad playing, but I cannot in good conscience given my experiences hold him responsible for the actions of his government. That is just not how the...

If they were not allowed to play with the German flag and exhibited neutrality, yes. If they went around pushing for Nazi supremacy and saying their victories was evidence of superiority, of course not. For some reason, people think that once you use Nazi in an argument, logic must be...

Then give him his influence, and over time, he can do the right thing as he gets older. Influence is not with young people who are usually poor. IT is with older and richer people usually or those with military/political rank.

Protesting a war publicly in the face of a dictatorship. That is the kind of thing a normal person only does when things are so bad for them they have nothing to live for. Not everyone has a death wish or a proclivity for violence. That is for the specialists/experts/mercenaries, not for...

They were initially banned, the CAS overturned the ban because ETTU couldn't demonstrate that it had analyzed the risk of doing so and found the risks unmanageable. IT is just as important to note that the athletes could be banned from many of the leagues they play in.

No one does. Being part of a country doesn't make you influential. As you or someone else said, nothing has changed in 25 years with respect to leadership. So why blame an athlete who is younger than 25 for what the leadership is doing?

Such things get people killed. It's one thing to engage in political activism when you are older and have done the important things you want to do, another when you are in your twenties and are yet to live life. It is perfectly normal for such things to be addressed by older and more...

Why is Wang not listed???

Wow... they need to fix Wang before the Euro Smash?

If I felt/knew that Sidorenko could do something, I would feel differently. In just about every country I know, he elections are determined by funding and news propaganda, I would feel said to be blamed for the actions of any government of a country of which I am a citizen.

So how would you expect any of the athletes to fix a problem that has not been fixed for the last 25 years?

IMVHO, I think it is just common sense that athletes have a limited ability to influence things like this. That the athletes have left the country to participate in leagues in Germany, France etc. almost speaks for itself. I get why people feel strongly about it, but the main solution in...

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Other than *maybe* the example of Fan Zhendong, who wasn't even allowed to play the Olympics when he was around the same age as Matsushima, I remain confused when people talk about the mental game of players like Matsushima as something worth discussing. You just continue to work with it because...

One can only win so many smashes before his ranking becomes too full lol...