Former NBC sportscaster Bob Costas called it perfectly. The International Olympics Committee’s decision to award China the 2022 Winter Olympics deserves nothing but “disdain and disgust.”
That’s because the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has earned the world’s disgust, if only for its ongoing genocide of the Uyghurs and other crimes against humanity. This is not a matter of politics. It’s a matter of human rights. But apparently, at IOC headquarters, money matters more than human rights.
At the very least, you’d think the IOC would be interested in protecting the rights and freedoms of Olympic athletes. Now that they are in Beijing, the athletes are under the all-seeing eye of an extensive digital surveillance system. The Party says it’s to ensure their safety and to control the spread of COVID-19.
