If there is anything that life showed me at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.
They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.
Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?
It’s not the athletes I took issue with, that’s their passions being taken advantage of. It was the fans I don’t understand. Could you just not miss watching it for a year or 4?
Listening to a football fan complain about Qatar and then still watch it was crazy to me. You explained so much on why nobody should watch it then watched it anyway!
Like the World Cup in Qatar, they will come.
Am I finding wrong information? It seems the IOC is the International Olympics Committee, and the 2028 Summer Olympics will be in Los Angeles. Not maybe a perfect place, but not on the same level as North Korea and suchlike.
The US is in the middle of betraying all of their allies, and are shredding democracy, and making the world objectively worse.
Who would want t go?
I don’t think the US is allies with North Korea or Belarus though…
Maybe Israel, they are, as you say, betraying all the rest of their allies…
Still not North Korea bad yet though, although certainly not a place I’d want to be
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