Sporting boycotts and the hockey player who could ice Putin
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The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2022
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
On Thursday Chelsea FC owner Roman Abramovich was sanctioned by the government with his assets in the UK frozen, leaving the football club in limbo. Today, we look at what sporting boycotts can achieve and ask if the Russian ice hockey star, Alex Ovechkin, could damage Vladimir Putin.
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Guests: Matt Dickinson, Senior Sports Writer, The Times.
Ryan Kennedy, Senior Writer at The Hockey News.
Host: David Aaronovitch.
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| 0:00.0 | Some things just add some play to your day. |
| 0:02.8 | Catching the toast as it pops out of the toaster. |
| 0:05.6 | Dancing down the street to your favourite place. |
| 0:08.8 | Wearing a sparkly boots to the shop. |
| 0:11.2 | Best of all, picking the new Red Scratch Card. |
| 0:14.0 | A Red Scratch Card, please. |
| 0:15.7 | Thank you. |
| 0:16.7 | And doing your own drum roll. |
| 0:18.5 | This is exciting. |
| 0:21.4 | Add some play to your day, |
| 0:22.8 | with Scratch Cards from the National Lottery. |
| 0:24.8 | So it's too big, place more. |
| 0:26.4 | Rules and procedures are by a players must be 18 or over. |
| 0:30.4 | MUSIC |
| 0:40.6 | When Russia invaded, a horrified world responded. |
| 0:44.8 | Economic sanctions, military assistance, |
| 0:47.6 | everything short of World War III. |
| 0:50.4 | And amid all this reaction, |
| 0:51.9 | there was no way sport was going to be exempt. |
| 0:55.8 | Russia has been banned from world football competitions for now. |
| 0:59.7 | Russians weren't allowed to take part in the Winter Paralympics, |
| 1:03.1 | and the Russian Grand Prix was cancelled. |
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