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Originally Posted by Slava
That probably kills the idea. No one involved (players, franchises) is going to be cool with that.
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Especially when the Chinese men's hockey team cruises to a gold medal because every opposing team has a mysterious rash of positive COVID tests the day before the game. And then the day after the game, whoopsie! Turns out they were all false positives. You can finish the Games and go home, but we'll take the win by forfeit.
I'm only about two-thirds kidding. People keep mentioning the 1936 Olympics in Berlin; well, books have been written about the blatant cheating by the Germans. When a dictator decides that he wants the prestige of hosting the Olympics, he also wants the prestige of winning.