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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
This is all well and good, and I specifically said that there was room for disagreement about whether the potential for retribution is enough to make us bow our heads and go along, effectively saying, "please don't hurt us, economic overlords". That's an argument that's worth having and I'm honestly not sure if I disagree, even though it makes me kind of sick to be part of a country that has to cower like that. Hence my earlier post in which I said I think my position is, "don't go, as long as we're not standing alone in not going."
But what I was talking about in the thing you quoted was Pepsifree's post about not going for a different reason - that this action won't change the way China behaves. That's simply not the deciding factor. There are, I think, lots of instances where you decline to be part of something not because it'll stop that something from happening, or that you think it'll change anyone's mind, but rather because you simply don't want to be part of it. That's the question here.
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That's why I answered the way I did. Put aside the host country for a moment. There's no way Canada does not want to be part of this. They LOVE the Olympics, especially the Winter Games. The country loves it, the athletes love it. People still talk about how great the Vancouver Games were. COC was pretty upset that Calgary Council withdrew the 2026 bid and will probably never choose Calgary again. I think these feelings outweigh the politics of the IOC (or of FIFA). Heck Canada's bidding for events after Beijing (twice) and Qatar were awarded.
I actually see a scenario where the US boycotts and Canada still goes moreso then the other way around because it's a Winter Games.