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Re:BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar... by jemmyw on Sunday November 20, 2022 @03:25PM (#33684884)
Probably the personal revolution of finding out that the game you love watching is actually quite boring unless you're pissed.
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Re:BBC ignores World Cup opening ceremony in favour of Qatar... by bobthepanda on Sunday November 20, 2022 @04:07PM (#33685314)
Also, the lack of appropriate alternate venues.

Developed countries do not want to host the Olympics anymore. By the time the 2022 selection was over, the only other candidate was Almaty, which isn’t less problematic and had a protest violently suppressed by Russian forces in January right before the 2022 Olympics.

The World Cup had Australia, South Korea, Japan and the US bidding to host 2022.

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