Calls to boycott the Beijing Olympics will sour the Canadian Olympic Committee’s time as “kings of the cultural cafeteria” after medal fever dies down
Visitors to Chongli, one of the venues for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, pass by the Olympics logo in Chongli in northern China's Hebei Province.It goes without saying that no Games may end before the Canadian Olympic Committee has patted itself on the back hard enough to break ribs.
“In my opinion, this is the best result Canada has ever achieved at an Olympic Games,” chef de mission Marnie McBean said. When the issue of China was put to Shoemaker, he didn’t have to go to anything prepared. He had this one memorized. The west has a history of hosting its parties in places that aren’t particularly kind to their own citizens. The 1990 World Cup in Argentina leaps to mind.
It won’t be the regime out there convincing people this is all totally normal and can’t we just think of the athletes and their dreams? That will be Ottawa and the COC, and their equivalents around the democracy-loving world.
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