U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Olympics

Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by outside1234 on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:21PM (#29464334)

If it were up to me, I'd have the athletes wear uniforms that alternatively "Olympic games, presented by Xinjiang concentration camps!", "Olympic Games, presented by no idea how the Coronavirus started, because there has been no investigation allowed in China around it origins.", and "Olympic Games, don't complain if you get raped because you'll end up locked in your house like Peng Shuai."

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by lrvick on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:32PM (#29464451)

As funny as that would be, I don't think the athletes would be safe making any kind of political statements directly.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by outside1234 on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:48PM (#29464647)

I think that sums it up. How is it possible we are having an Olympics in such a place?

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by pacoWebConsult on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:58PM (#29464789)

Because the international olympic committee is quite possibly the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet, which is saying something when FIFA exists.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by ycombigator on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:06PM (#29465714)

'We have had a second videocall with Peng Shuai' levels of corruption.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by ectopod on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:46PM (#29465453)

World Athletics is up there too.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by outside1234 on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:02PM (#29464840)

Amen

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by BiteCode_dev on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:43PM (#29465419)

You may want to check out 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by djohnston on Monday December 06, 2021 @02:57PM (#29464773)

TBF we had the olympics in Nazi Germany so it's not like this is breaking some existing streak of IOC virtue.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by outside1234 on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:03PM (#29464846)

Why do we continue to have that venue be the place where we have our athletes go then?

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by thefounder on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:17PM (#29465022)

Because the athlets train to be the best in the world so taking that from them is punishing.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by dnautics on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:38PM (#29465348)

bump it up by a year and set it up in different country.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by parthdesai on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:13PM (#29464976)

I do get your point, but the massive difference is that you can make that statement in US without having to think about repercussions. Can't do that in China.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by dirtyid on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:35PM (#29465298)

"At least muh free speech" that changes nothing seems like the go-to American exceptionalism excuse. Latest report coming out of XJ is the mass internment phase is over. So the massive difference is is PRC doesn't mass detain minorities for longer than political goals deem necessary. Yet Americans still can't seem free speech / vote away forever for profit prison industrial complex.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by dnautics on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:37PM (#29465321)

shouldn't there be guidance that no athelete that has ever made any kind of political statement on public or semi-public forums (facebook, twitter, tiktok, google plus) is unsafe?

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by slowmovintarget on Monday December 06, 2021 @10:11PM (#29468731)

Guidance to whom? The CCP is going to do its own thing. There's no reason for it to listen to the IOC.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by dnautics on Monday December 06, 2021 @10:46PM (#29468883)

country's state departments (or their equivalents) often give guidance to their citizens travelling abroad about what sorts of safety concerns they might face.

Edit: oh i just realized I wrote "unsafe", I meant "safe".

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by staticautomatic on Monday December 06, 2021 @05:32PM (#29466570)

Much simpler to just put Winnie the Pooh on the outfits.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by petre on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:56PM (#29466216)

It would be easier to just boycott the Beijing olympics. Foreign athletes are probably going to spend two weeks in quarantine anyway, like it happened at the 2021 Australian Open hotel arrest.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by encryptluks2 on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:42PM (#29465406)

The US really needs to get its priorities in order first cause they could just wear shirts that mock America's slave labor prison system among many other things.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by dirtyid on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:38PM (#29465347)

There's Charter rule 50 for politicization of uniforms. For which PRC athletes got warnings over in Tokyo for Mao pins. PRC will probably scrutinize thoroughly, and who knows which athlete's covid test turns positive and have to miss their event for 3 week quarantine

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by brundolf on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:05PM (#29464878)

Just emblazon them with “Remember Tiananmen Square”. I’d love to see China try and censor its own Olympics.

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Re:U.S. says it will not send officials to Beijing Winter Ol... by empressplay on Monday December 06, 2021 @03:24PM (#29465119)

How about a graphic of a woman standing in front of a tank? That makes a clear point while removing the language barrier...

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