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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Lawrence Ostlere

Paris 2024 won’t solve the world’s problems – has anyone told the Olympic president?

AP

Increasingly, our tyrannical sporting overlords seem to think they are Martin Luther King. Eight months after Fifa chief Gianni Infantino gave his ”Today I feel gay” speech, delivered with all the self-awareness of Jake Humphrey and the gravitas of a spoon, Olympic president Thomas Bach visited Paris one year out from the 2024 Games and decided to invoke John Lennon.

“The Olympic Games must never erect walls,” Bach said, forgetting about the climbing event. “Imagine. You may say we are dreamers. We are not the only ones.”

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