“Holding the games in China magnifies everything that is wrong with Olympic sports: the triumph of money, power and nationalism over amateurism, sportsmanship and international understanding.”
I don’t think this quote relates to China alone. And more recently, Brazil seems to be taking some dangerous turns.
https://isthmus.com/opinion/opinion/the-totalitarian-olympic...
This also happened in Russia 4 years and in Germany in 1936. It seems like the prestige of the upcoming games is holding the tide of authoritarian rule, which then surges unrestrained.