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Originally Posted by RogerWilco
China may not care if we go or not, but lets be clear. The premier event of the winter games is the ice hockey tournament. If NHLers are allowed to go the tournament is basically meaningless without the Canadian Team. This would be a huge story. If it was the summer games no one would really care, but the winter games?
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This will only matter to Canadians, and Canadians only.
Canada is irrelevant on the political stage worldwide. If Canada was to boycott the Olympics, it would be noted, but it won't make a difference to the quality of the games itself.
I don't see Canada boycotting the games, since they would do nothing else outside of the games to showcase their displeasure with China. It comes off fairly hallow when you're still supporting the Chinese economy as normal, but not sending your amateur athletes to a special athletic event the whole world will be taking part in.
Based on China's record, they shouldn't have even gotten the games in the first place if we're gonna make the Olympics political. But that's an IOC issue, and they - as well as FIFA - don't care about that at all. They just care about the money.