Adair said that unless Beijing can demonstrate that such claims are without merit, calls to disallow Beijing from hosting the 2022 Olympics would continue. “And the IOC will be drawn irrevocably into a discussion it seems reluctant to have,” he told VOA.
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Currently, the International Olympic Committee’s official stance is that it is only a sporting body that does not get involved with politics.
More than 180 human rights groups are calling for diplomatic boycott of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games to protest Beijing’s abuses of racial and ethnic minorities.
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“The games are not Chinese Games, the games are the IOC Games,” he told the BBC. “The decision on hosting is not made with a view to signaling approval of a government policy.”
Linking human rights concerns to the 2022 Winter Olympics goes beyond the diplomatic into the rough-and-tumble of world-class athletes and sports fans.
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