Comment on The IOC probably hopes that countries other than Belarus, North Korea, Hungary and International Olympic Athletes will want to show up for the 2028 games.

pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

If there is anything that life showed my at a young age, during gym classes, it’s that sports people and competitive people will not stop for compassion or ethics.

They can come from the most democratic country, but those athletes will have trained all their life for this moment, and they would still go even if the Olympics were held in a North Korean torture camp.

Again, they trained all their life for this, so what’s a few human rights violations, or even a little bit of blatant corruption, if you can say you won the Olympics?

source
Sort:hotnewtop