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Originally Posted by Hot_Flatus
Is this the right thing? The right thing would have been to not award the games to countries with dodgy human rights and political track records in the first place (Russia, China, Brazil and so on).
Postponing at the 11th hour only hurts the thousands of amateur athletes that have been working their butts off for the last 4 years to get to this point. The millionaire hockey players are not even close to the issue that should be concerned here.
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Of course the right thing would have been not to award the games to China in the first place. As many on CP are very aware my contempt for the Chinese government is off the charts. And don't even get me started on the IOC and their corrupt ways.
But that ship has sailed unfortunately. I would feel bad for the amateur athletes but the situation now seems significantly worse than during the Tokyo summer games.