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A PODIUM KISS in Moscow has led to further attention being shone on Russia’s harsh new homosexuality laws.
Russian runners Kseniya Ryzhova and Tatyana Firova kissed on the podium after winning the 4×400 metre relay at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow.
According to Sky News, sources in the Russia team camp are downplaying the incident, saying it was simply a celebration and there were no politics involved.
However, with such intense scrutiny on the World Championships after pole-vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva’s comments last week, the athletes involved were surely aware how the gesture would appear.
It’s the latest twist in a controversy that is only likely to get worse.
YouTube credit: NewsYlc
The upcoming Winter Olympics are due to be held in Sochi, Russia, despite a wave of controversy surrounding the vague and potentially homophobic law. Some athletes have been using the World Athletics Championships to highlight the issue, with American track and field star Nick Symmonds dedicating his medal to his gay family and friends, and Swedish athletes painting their nails rainbow colors in support of gay rights.
If this is the kind of protest we can expect at the Athletics and upcoming Winter Olympics, then it’s probably my duty to watch. In support of the issue like
Unless if course it’s the Russian women shot putters..
I don’t think they do shot putting in the Winter Olympics
Any port in a storm
In fairness things like this have become so common in the West that they barely raise an eyebrow these days unless there’s a statement behind them. What these girls have done may well have put their liberty, if not their lives, at risk and was certainly a brave thing to do in Putin’s Russia today.
They are brave women . Look what happened to pussy riot when they protested. a being gay definitly had an impact on their sentecing
Nobody minds 2 girls kissing, but when men are doing it then it all just seems wrong. This is that the majority of people think, hence the popularity of lesbian porn.
Your right though so don’t know why people are red thumbing! Two men would cause uproar !
Argh….lesbians good….gays bad….argh!
Definitely a way better story than twilight.
Two women kissing. Watching dem Olympics!
Putin is going to get it in the mush now. There will be all sorts of support / protests at the Olympics. Well done to these two athletes, I hope that medieval regime will leave them alone.
These new laws brought in shows the ignorance of Putin.
Really conclusive , next there will be an article when a male athlete gets a bouquet on the podium. Athlete protest by accepting flowers. Slow news day
You go girls!
No one else think Putin is hating on Gays because he is one , trying to pose macho in every photo oppertunity he gets ? Thats right Vladimar we all see how manly you are topless pretending you wrestled a bear …brokeback mountain style
Nail on the head there dub jonny. so macho
the journalists in dublin are up early this morning !
Reminiscent of Tommie Smith and John Carlos in ’68 Olympics. Wonderful!
No it’s not
Yes it is, That’s the iconic athletes protest, they definitely would have had that in mind when they planned this protest.
http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/18/russian-athletes-just-kissing-not-protesting-against-anti-gay-laws-3928683/
That link in the article presents the same angle, the same ‘sources within the camp’.
Of course they’ll claim it wasn’t a protest. Do you know what happens to protesters in Russia, especially those “advocating non traditional relationships”? I don’t care if they’re gay or not, it was a wonderful demonstration of the nonsensical russian situation.
Someone give that girl something to eat!
She’s a gold medal winning athlete. She has a better diet than you,
Amy news on Solheim Cup? Had to hit the hay last night during their electrical storm break. Just wondering does anybody know did Europe retain the cup? Twas looking likely. Sorry for posting here but I can’t find the results anywhere
Yes Eur 18 pts U.S.A 10 pts
@eileen , are u trying to tell us, fellow journal readers that if you type solheim cup into google and press “I’m feeling lucky” your not getting lucky ??
U are looking in the wrong places, try some news sites
Google is your friend.
Normal Russian practise. Have you forgotten the sight of Soviet era politicians kssing each other on the lips at every offical function.
I agree this does not seem like a protest to me. Even Russian men greet good friends like this. This is media hype.
Straight Russian men kissing on the lips? Really.
Actually that custom is kissing on the cheeks.
I witnessed something like this in 2005 at 2 am after the fiddler’s waiting for the bus in Carrickmacross while eating a bag of chips, helped to pass the time.
Ah ya 2005 before everything went tits up.
Remember this? yuk ..
http://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/08/02/the-fraternal-kiss/
Not a protest against gay law. It is normal in Russia to kiss people of the same sex on the lips. Remember the communist leaders did it all the time!
http://metro.co.uk/2013/08/18/russian-athletes-just-kissing-not-protesting-against-anti-gay-laws-3928683/
Moee of these videos please!!!!!!
Putin probably told them to do it.
You’re mixed up – that’s Berlusconi.
Incredible. For the people supporting their pole volter’s disgusting comments the last day saying “she’s an athlete its not her business” some things transcend sport. These two women took a stand and they are real heroes.
Mr Know, the feminine of hero is heroine. Oh, hang on……….Russian female athletes. Hmmm. You may have been right first time.
Sorry. As you were.
Thought the word was done away with along with actress and chairperson etc. We’ll all have the same genitalia soon, it will be glorious.
jesus i’ll never get out of bed then!
@ClubHotelBars.ie Thanks :)
How exactly does this break the ‘anti gay’ law in Russia, sure we all know one of them is a man.
I could watch that Youtube all day.
Nice