Winston Peters caught up in Russian disinformation campaign
Well, well, well.
What do we have here…
Olympic boxing gender row Russian ‘fake news’ says outgoing IOC President Thomas Bach
A gender row involving two female boxers at the Paris 2024 Olympics was the result of a Russian fake news campaign and had little to do with reality, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach said.
Bach, who is stepping down in June after 12 years in charge of the biggest job in world sports, said the IOC had needed to fight off many similar campaigns before and after the Paris Games.
The boxing competition at the Paris Games was run by the IOC after it stripped the International Boxing Association (IBA) of recognition last year over its failure to implement reforms on governance and finance.
But the IBA, run by Russian businessman Umar Kremlev with close links to the Kremlin, accused the IOC during Paris of allowing two female athletes, who had been banned by the IBA following a chromosome test a year earlier, to compete.
A bitter war of words ensued between the two organisations and hogged the headlines during the Games.
“I would not consider this (Paris Games gender row) a real crisis because all this discussion is based on a fake news campaign coming from Russia,” Bach told Reuters in an interview at the southern Greek seaside resort where his successor will be elected on Thursday.
“This was part of the many, many fake news campaigns we had to face from Russia before Paris and after Paris, ” he said.
Several such campaigns happened before Paris, including what the IOC said at the time were repeated hacking attempts, as well as a prank call by a Russian group targeting Bach and pretending to be African Union Commission representatives.
…remember this…
…turns out Winston Peters was tricked by a Russian disinformation campaign.
We will all await Winston’s apology.
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Who does he have to apologize to .He quoted the incident as a reason to enact a policy that most supported .Only woke Greenies would think otherwise
Let’s see, is it calling a female boxer a man? I guess being such a fan of this coalition of wankers, you have lost any standards but repeating bullshit used to be frowned upon. That said, bullshit is the currency that the majority of them deal in so even they must get confused.
Nothing new here.
The Russian gender tests were claimed to be bogus at the time of the scandal.
What amuses me is the inevitable [insert the name of target to be smeared here] has ” close links to the Kremlin” phrase.
That’s Rachel Maddow’s favourite line.
Surely the question is; did Algeria’s Khelif and Taiwan’s Lin Yu-ting fail IBA gender eligibility tests prior competing as women boxers at the Olympics – yes or no? It’s a question of safety. Who asked the question and who was “fooled” by it is secondary. Remember Tamara Press.