The force that through the green fuse drives the flower / Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees / Is my destroyer. / And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose / My youth is bent by the same wintry fever¡¦.by Dylan Thomas
Tenngh13122 2020-01-01 (21:37) IP address :46.244.29.75
But the sense ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® is that with football reflecting a society that has become more divided and polarised since the Brexit vote in 2016, the scourge of abuse È«Äá¸íÇ°½Ã°è=È«Äá¸íÇ°½Ã°è by those attending matches has returned in the last two years, and is getting worse, shattering the widely-held assumption at the end of the last decade that such racism was no longer a major issue.
This trend has been mirrored abroad where the abuse of England's players in Bulgaria felt like a watershed moment in sport's long battle with discrimination.
Some blame the rise of far-right political parties and nationalism across Europe, and the sanctions ·¹Çø®Ä«¸íÇ°=·¹Çø®Ä«¸íÇ° handed out by football authorities, while others want social media companies to ûȣ ÀÌ°ú¼ö Á¤¼ö±â·»Å»=ûȣ³ªÀ̽º ûȣ ÀÌ°ú¼ö ³Ã³ÃÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» 450ÂøÇÑ°÷ do more to curb racist behaviour on their platforms. But if there is a positive to come out of all this, it is a new era of athlete activism.
By making a stand against racism, Raheem Sterling reminded us that this ·¹Çø®Ä«³²¼ºÀÇ·ù=·¹Çø®Ä«³²¼ºÀÇ·ù was the decade when some of the world's most famous athletes stopped being afraid of expressing an opinion on politics and society for fear of upsetting sponsors or fans, and harnessed social media and their vast influence to try to make a difference.
thosgf1133 2020-01-01 (21:25) IP address :46.244.29.75
But in the three-and-a-half years that have À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè=À̹ÌÅ×ÀÌ¼Ç À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǹ̷¯±Þ passed since Rio 2016, a series of bullying and discrimination scandals embroiling some of the country's best-funded high-performance programmes has shown the risks of such an approach.
There has been the fear that in many cases, winning came at the expense of welfare ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® and duty of care. The case of former sprint cyclist Jess Varnish - who claimed she had been the victim of discrimination when dropped from Team GB's Olympic squad - was a defining moment.
Until 2017 little thought was given to safeguarding in the mainstream media. But then - ·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ=·¹Çø®Ä«¹Ì·¯±Þ thanks to the courage of whistle-blowers like former Crewe player Andy Woodward - football's appalling non-recent child sex abuse scandal was finally revealed.
althogf311 2020-01-01 (21:22) IP address :46.244.29.75
For decades, athletes had been told to 'stick to sports'. In the ¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä«=¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä« 2010s they finally found their voice.
Athlete welfare
At the turn of the last decade, the only aspect Çö´ë »ì±Õ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»=Çö´ëÅ¥¹Ö Å¥¹ÖS Ç÷¯½º »ì±Õ ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å» ½ºÅĵåÇü±Â±Â of Britain's elite sporting culture that seemed to matter was performance.
Record success at successive Olympics and Paralympics after decades of disappointment secured the country's status as a sporting powerhouse, and appeared to vindicate the 'no-compromise' strategy of all-powerful funding agency UK Sport, the body tasked with turning lottery money into medals.
fir2z331 2020-01-01 (21:16) IP address :46.244.29.75
For several years, 'marginal gains' was credited with transforming British cycling's fortunes on both the road and the track, where it became the driving-force behind successive Olympic triumphs.
But during the second half of the decade, ·¹Çø®Ä«±¸¸Å´ëÇà=·¹Çø®Ä«·¹Çø®Ä« ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß ·¹Çø®Ä«±¸¸Å´ëÇà Team Sky came under mounting scrutiny over how they managed to win so much amid a series of controversies.
Among them was the failure to keep basic medical ·¹Çø®Ä«½Ã°è=·¹Çø®Ä«½Ã°è records, Froome being cleared of wrongdoing after an adverse analytical finding for salbutamol, and revelations over separate unresolved È«Äá¸íÇ°»çÀÔ=È«Äá¸íÇ°»çÀÔ scandals over two medical deliveries; the first a mystery jiffybag for Sir Bradley Wiggins, the second a batch of testosterone to the national velodrome.
wom4111 2020-01-01 (20:55) IP address :46.244.29.75
But more than any other, ¸íÇ°st=¸íÇ°st the scandal came to symbolise a number of issues; sub-standard governance across sport, the greed and unchecked excess at the top of world football, and the vast wealth generated by deals with sponsors and È«Äá·¹Çø®Ä«=È«Äá·¹Çø®Ä« TV companies.
The record TV audiences that watched the groundbreaking 2019 ·¹Çø®Ä« ¸íÇ°=·¹Çø®Ä« ¸íÇ° Fifa Women's World Cup felt like a watershed moment. As had the inspiration provided by Team GB's gold-medal winning hockey players at Rio 2016, England's World Cup-winning cricketers in 2017, and their triumphant netball team at the Commonwealth Games in 2018.
Team Sky and their riders always ¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=¸íÇ°·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß denied any wrongdoing and rejected accusations they had ever cheated their way to success. But a landmark medical tribunal to determine if former chief medic Dr Richard Freeman ordered testosterone to help an unnamed rider to cheat nine years ago will resume in 2020.
In 2015 a World ÄíÄí ÀνºÇ»¾î ½½¸²=ÄíÄí ÀνºÇ»¾î ½½¸² ³Ã¿ÂÁ¤¼ö±â·»Å»¾ÆÁÖÁÁÀ½ Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) report laid bare the details of a conspiracy like no other. Masterminded by the former head of Moscow's anti-doping lab turned whistle-blower Dr Grigory Rodchenkov, Russia's state-sponsored doping racket implicated 1,000 athletes across multiple sports and sabotaged successive Olympic Games - including London 2012 - now known as the dirtiest statistically in history - with more than 130 competitors since disqualified.
In the years that followed, more gory details have emerged, the scandal ³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß=³²ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«½Å¹ß doing untold damage to the credibility of major institutions like the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Wada, undermining the anti-doping system, eroding public trust, and dominating the build-up to both Rio 2016 Á¦ÀϾÆÄí¾ÆÆ÷ƼÁ¤¼ö±â=Á¦ÀϾÆÄí¾Æ Æ÷Ƽ Á¤¼ö±â·»Å» ½Ç¹ö/ÈÀÌÆ®¹«·á and Pyeongchang 2018 - from which the Russian team were banned.
It now threatens to do the same to Tokyo 2020 with Russia recently hit with an unprecedented À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè¹Ì·¯±Þ=À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǽðè À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǹ̷¯±Þ À̹ÌÅ×À̼Ƿ¹Çø®Ä« (but qualified) four-year ban from major international events after another audacious cover-up.
But with an appeal yet to be heard, and some athletes furious that an À̹ÌÅ×À̼Çsa=À̹ÌÅ×À̼Çsa±Þ À̹ÌÅ×À̼ǼîÇÎ ·¹Çø®Ä«¼îÇθô outright ban was avoided, it is clear that this crisis will extend well into the 2020s. Surely the greatest scandal sport has ever known.
comma331 2019-12-31 (20:32) IP address :178.162.199.116
Washington on Monday accused the Iraqi authorities of failing to "protect" US interests.
"We have warned the Iraqi government many times, and we've shared information with them to try to work with them to carry out their responsibility to protect us as their invited guests," a senior US state department official ¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä«=¸íÇ°Æеù·¹Çø®Ä« told reporters in Washington.
Several attacks have in recent weeks targeted Iraq bases where Americans are present. The US has blamed the attacks on pro-Iran factions.
Sunday's air strikes in Iraq and Syria against Kataib Hezbollah were in response to the killing of a US civilian contractor.
Weapons caches and command and È«Äá¸íÇ°½Ã°èÄ¿½ºÅÒ±Þ=È«Äá½Ã°è È«Äá¸íÇ°¼îÇÎ È«Äá¸íÇ°Ä¿½ºÅÒ±Þ control centres at five sites associated with the militia were hit, the US said.
Kataib Hezbollah (Brigades of the Party of God) is a powerful Iraqi Shia militia that receives financial and military support from ³»Ãß·²¿öÅÍ Á¤¼ö±â·»Å»=ÄíÄí ³»Ãß·²¿öÅÍ ³Ã¿Â Á¤¼ö±â·»Å» ÇÏÇÁÇü¸Å¿ìÁÁÀ½ Iran.
Since 2009, the US has designated the group as a terrorist organisation, accusing them of threatening the peace and stability of Iraq.
It has close links to Shia politicians who are part of the ruling elite, and has backed the Popular Mobilisation, which played a key role in defeating IS.