The furor over Russia's hosting of the 2014 Winter Games isn't dying down, and the news today is fairly bleak: Talking to World Football Insider, Russia's World Cup chief Alexey Sorokin defended his country's new anti-gay legislation:  “The Olympics and World Cup are not a stage for various views ... Not for Nazis, not for any other ways of life."

Ironically, the Nazis used the Berlin Olympics as a way to promote their legitimacy on the world stage.

Sorokin addded that the law "is designed against active propaganda of homosexuality, not against homosexuality itself. That is a big difference," and ponders if we'd want a World Cup "where naked people are running around displaying their homosexuality? The answer to that is quite obvious."

Obviously yes!

[caption id="attachment_117343" align="alignright" width="210"] Out speed skater Blake Skjellerup[/caption]

Equally disturbing, the International Olympic Committee has announced it will enforce a provision it its charter that punishes athletes who make political or religious displays, after concerns about gay and allied Olympians in the Sochi Games. That could cause problems for people like out skater Blake Skalljrup, who plans on wearing a rainbow pin to the Games.

Rule 50 states: "no kind of demonstration or political, religious or racial propaganda is permitted in any Olympic sites, venues or other areas.

So crosses and Stars of David will be ripped from athletes necks?