"it's different because russia uses their figure skaters as state propaganda" as if people weren't filling the tag with "blade angels make me proud to be american 😍" during worlds while usa had broken olympic truce and were bombing residential areas in iran (and ofc as always funding and supporting genocide state)
#figure skating#like I do respect the argument that russians are explicitly funded by the state (same as germans and italians via the military/police btw!)#but also ultimately sportswashing is a powerful tool employed every country to varying degrees depending on sport#and for as long as fs is structured in a country representation format it will continue to be a problem to be discussed
