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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is simple then.  Drop Russian citizenships.  You are a citizen of a State that invaded another State because you want their land and resources, and you are willing to kill thousands to get your way.

If a rich athlete who is a citizen of such a country wants to avoid the obvious ramifications of being a citizen of that country they can renounce their citizenship and apply to become a citizen of another country.  Easy.  Don’t want to renounce your citizenship?  Then you don’t get to participate in activities taking place outside of your country.  Do you think McDonalds had much say in Russia’s attack on Ukrain?  Yet, McDonalds is taking a $500,000,000 hit.  Similarly, many other people and entities in the US and around the world.

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You realize that for the vast majority, you can't just renounce your citizenship until you actually have been accepted by another nation for citizenship.  In many countries, you have to have justification and the application process can take years.  Wimbledon is in 3 months.  There is no country that will accept your application for citizenship and process it in 3 months so that you have it in time for a sporting event.  If they renounce their Russian or Belarussian citizenship before they travel to the UK, then they will lose their current passport and not even be able to apply for Visas.  If they go to the UK and then renounce their national citizenship, then they will be stranded in [b]Russian[/b] while they apply for UK citizenship.  And they will have no reason to need UK citizenship other than that they are physically there.  Most nations require you to have a reason, whether you work there, or study there, to apply and be accepted for citizenship.

If they travel to the UK and then drop their national citizenship, they are essentially becoming indigent.  There are only a handful of tennis tournaments in the UK over a 2 week period in June.  And technically, if they have no citizenship, they will not be authorized to work in the UK and they may not be able to play any of the tournaments.  Tennis players get special visas so that they can enter foreign countries and play in that nation and earn money.  The money is taxed and then when they file their taxes at home, they have the documentation to exempt the earnings from additional taxes based on paying foreign tax.  If they have no citizenship, their passports will be revoked along with any Visas that they used to enter the country and they will not be allowed to play in the tournaments.

Your suggestion is naive and ignorant of the way sovereign nations regulations on entrance to countries, passports, visas and work within foreign countries works.  [/quote]

that should be Britain[/quote]

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