Winter Olympic Games Beijing 2022 News

[NearPup 4,175]

predictably joining the "diplomatic boycott".

[LDOG 2,477]

Diplomatic boycott?  what is this? Grow some balls and do a real full boycott if you care that much about human rights. 

 

Typical duplicity of anglophone international relations.

[Orangehair43 315]

2 hours ago, LDOG said:

Diplomatic boycott?  what is this? Grow some balls and do a real full boycott if you care that much about human rights. 

 

Typical duplicity of anglophone international relations.

They know athletes would not support it. In 1980 many athletes didn’t support it when their countries boycotted. 

[Quaker2001 339]

3 hours ago, LDOG said:

Diplomatic boycott?  what is this? Grow some balls and do a real full boycott if you care that much about human rights. 

 

Typical duplicity of anglophone international relations.

59 minutes ago, Orangehair43 said:

They know athletes would not support it. In 1980 many athletes didn’t support it when their countries boycotted. 

Can't speak for other countries, but in this one, the Olympic committee is not tied to the government.  So the government can't force the athletes to boycott here.  The USOPC changed their bylaws to stop outside influences from affecting their ability to compete.  And needless to say, athletes don't want to be told they can't compete.

[Monzanator 5,115]

2 hours ago, Orangehair43 said:

They know athletes would not support it. In 1980 many athletes didn’t support it when their countries boycotted. 

From the other side of the fence, then-active Polish athletes are still bitter over the 1984 boycott as well. In fact to mask the obvious displeasure some aged athletes were allowed to leave the country just to silence the backlash (like '76 pentathlon champion Pyciak-Peciak).

[opruh 129]

By february, at least 20 will declare a diplomatic boycott while 170+ will throw their full support. Congratulations to China for another successful olympics. 

[DaniSRB 899]

Political boycott should be extended to forever, athletes are enough to represent their countries

[Quaker2001 339]

13 hours ago, opruh said:

By february, at least 20 will declare a diplomatic boycott while 170+ will throw their full support. Congratulations to China for another successful olympics. 

Only 92 countries competed in Korea in 2018, so less than half the countries that normally show up at a Summer Olympics will likely be in China.  So far, the list of diplomatic boycotts are largely confined to the Anglosphere.. USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand.  Only European country that has committed to a boycott is Lithuania.  We'll see if other dominoes fall there.

[hckošice 16,614]

Our president to the question about the so-called Diplomatic boycott answered that she will not attend the Olympics in Beijing, but also said that it is not an official boycott, since she never even planned to attend 

[NearPup 4,175]

5 minutes ago, hckošice said:

Our president to the question about the so-called Diplomatic boycott answered that she will not attend the Olympics in Beijing, but also said that it is not an official boycott, since she never even planned to attend 

Talk about a snub of Petra Vlhová.