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No Athletes Should Go To China

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The athletes should at least wear black armbands.
Posted by shadowminister, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 11:25:42 AM
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Everything is connected to everything else. Sports and politics are entwined. Participating in Hitler's Olympics in 1936 supported the Nazis. Participating in China's current Olympics supports the Communists. We have no business being there.
Posted by david f, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 12:22:42 PM
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Australian athletes have been training and competing
for this Olympic dream for 4 years and we should allow
them to succeed. Success would be the best revenge in
China.

As it was in the Nazi Olympics - the 1936 Berlin Games.
These games were more than just a worldwide sporting
event. They were a show of Nazi propaganda. Hitler's
attempt to see "Aryan" athletes triumph was not a complete
success most famously due to the medal sweep brought by
US black track star Jesse Owens. Germany did not walk
away with the most Olympic medals.

Allow our athletes to be equally successful in China.
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 1:43:37 PM
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Dear Foxy,

Jesse Owens triumphed in the 1936 Olympics. Huwever, he was not invited to the White House. His own country gave him no recognition. His triumph was meaningless. As a matter of he replaced a Jewish athlete who was left off the team possibly catering to Hitler who possibly found a black less offensive than a Jew. Nazi glitz appeared in the 1936 Olympics. The Olympic torch was an invention of Goebbels which was kept.

I was at the 1932 Olympics. There was no Olympic village. Athletes came and found local families or hotels to stay at. They were real amateurs. The local Stevens boys won the bobsled event and were back at work in their garage next day. As far as I am concerned the 1932 winter Olympics at Lake Placid were the last real Olympics. After that they became festivals of nationalism, commercialism and bad taste.
Posted by david f, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 2:24:19 PM
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I speak from the position of once being a reasonably elite track cyclist. Not at a standard to going to the Olympics, but close.

If I was ever an Olympic athlete there is no way I would participate in an Olympics in a country where systematic abuses of human rights and power were the norm. I had opportunities in my heyday to compete in the Philippines, didn't do it, Marcos regime at the time. I said no.

There are current things I do not understand, when South Africa had the appalling system of apartheid they were put in the sporting gulag. So why, with China having an even more appalling record are they not treated the same?

I hold the corrupted IOC accountable for granting both the Summer and Winter Games to a despicable regime and country. Olympic athletes should not have to be placed in a moral dilemma to, or not to compete due to such IOC decisions.
Posted by ViolentEntropy, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 4:00:20 PM
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The OLYMPICS went down hill once they did away with Jelly Wrestling, a truly cultured event.

Back in the day at the 428BC OLYMPICS held on an iceberg at the North Pole the athletes were made compete in the bollicky, bet a lot stood up in the bobsled event.
Posted by Paul1405, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 4:18:58 PM
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