Проблема политизации спорта и международного олимпийского движения в свете антироссийских санкций 2022 года

Abstract

The article examines the current aspects of the modern sports politicization on the example of the 2015–2022 event series, during which unprecedented restrictions (sanctions) were imposed against the Russian Federation in terms of their scale and intensity, preventing Russian athletes from participating in international sports competitions. A new stage of the restrictions imposed against Russian athletes has turned out to be associated with the beginning of a special military operation on the territory of the Ukraine. The increasing political pressure on Russian athletes and Russian sports organizations raises the question of politics penetration into modern sports and the use of restrictions in the field of admission to sports competitions as an instrument of geopolitical struggle. In this regard, it is advisable to consider ways to neutralize these negative processes and return the full participation of Russian athletes and Russian sports organizations in the international Olympic movement. The object of the study is the totality of international sports relations arising in the sphere of the introduction of restrictive measures (sanctions) as a means of political influence on individual states and sports organizations. The subject of the study is international sports sanctions against Russia aimed at limiting the participation of Russian athletes in the international sports movement. The methodology of the research is based on the use of the resources of event analysis, content analysis, general scientific methodology (analysis, synthesis, inductive-deductive method), the principle of objectivity. The author concludes that the only full-fledged tool for achieving the goal of lifting sanctions by international sports organizations remains the possibility of judicial and legal counteraction to these sanctions. In the light of the events of 2022, the need to develop a system of priorities for the implementation of the policy of the Russian state in the field of lifting sanctions against Russian athletes is being actualized. In this regard, there is a need to adopt guiding documents defining the strategy of the country’s sports diplomacy. This challenge should become an organizing impulse that will consolidate the efforts of state bodies to achieve national interests in this area.