At some point, if events allow us to take stock of those anxious days, we will realize that international sport has also changed significantly.

Medal tables, for example, can be abolished.

The true quality of nations and their athletes is not reflected in this ranking.

Many athletes are proving what really counts: a sense of responsibility, heart, mind and a clear positioning in the face of Putin's violence.

Athletes from the free world make themselves heard in sports policy, the Association of Athletes Germany is leading the way.

They resolutely defend themselves against the self-congratulatory members of the International Olympic and Paralympic Committee, blow up their bulwarks with their clear demands and touch us with the power of their youth.

So many have exposed themselves, there is not enough space for their names.

But three others should be mentioned here again: Yevhen Malyshev, a biathlete, Vitaly Sapylo and Dimitri Martynenko, two footballers.

The Ukrainian athletes we know so far died in Putin's war.

What is bitter: The only thing that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has so far officially criticized about Russia is an "extremely serious" breach of the Olympic Truce.

The recommendation to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from competitions (in principle, but not mandatory, depending on...) is only justified with practical considerations anyway.

One wonders what the IOC would have done if sports friend Vladimir Putin had invaded Ukraine on March 21, for example.

Or at Christmas.

Nothing at all?

“Your legacy is your deeds” – Ukrainian athletes confirmed this to the IOC this week.

your actions.

Not your egg dances.

Which brings us to another inglorious chapter.

Of course, the crooked lawyers and makeshift Swiss in Lausanne see no reason to suspend the two Russian IOC members.

Although they have to be included in Putin's infiltration system just like the many oligarchs at the control centers of the world associations who remain in office as if nothing were wrong.

According to the true IOC motto: faint-hearted, embarrassing, dependent.