When you’re big, people take big swings at you. The IOC has come to realize that it’s not the swings you need to worry about. It’s when the swinging stops
Back in London 2012, the Olympics’ topline problem was doping. A hundred and 30 or so competitors – everyone from judokas to hurdlers – were eventually sanctioned there. A dozen more were banned before they could even enter the Games.
Watching the IOC stumbling and bumbling its way through the gender crisis in boxing at these Games, you got the same feeling. Surely it saw this coming. How could it not?was finally roused to address it, he got it wrong, confusing “transgender” with “DSD” .Bach wasn’t out there changing hearts and minds. Nobody can do that, never mind a charisma-free apparatchik from Germany. The real function of Bach’s address was to keep the controversy smouldering.
The Olympics do everything. You don’t want to argue about sex testing? No problem. How do you like gymnastics? That’s a nice change of pace. Or breaking? Do you like music? Because this has that. No dopers, guaranteed. But to do such a thing at the Olympics? Dear God, no, this cannot be allowed to happen – whatever “this” happens to be right now. There’s always a “this.” It’s constantly changing. Without it, the Olympics is just a track and field meet with great staging.So how does the Olympic movement emerge from its first Games after COVID? Renewed in its purpose and stronger than ever.
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