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| Subject: Olympic Games helping dictators Tue Feb 08, 2022 8:25 pm | |
| Olympic historian: Games Helping Dictators
“The authoritarian challenge to democracy and human rights is arguably the defining geopolitical story of our time. Rather than oppose this trend, the [International Olympic Committee] seems to be participating in it,” thunders Jules Boykoff at Politico. “The IOC has willingly hitched its wagon to China while showing gullibility every step of the way,” including its “consistent” deflections on human rights issues there. IOC leaders say they want to be neutral, but “in the current political climate, ‘neutrality’ isn’t the virtue they pretend it is.” This, as “countries experiencing a decline in their overall freedom outnumbered those experiencing gains” as charted by Freedom House. “The IOC isn’t a country, of course. But it’s clear what side of that ledger the organization is on.”
.https://nypost.com/2022/02/08/olympic-games-helping-dictators-and-other-commentary/
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