Column: Calls to boycott Olympic Games in China and Japan should go unheard


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Sez Me … Boycott is not an Olympic sport. We should not make it one. But some human rights groups are calling for the U.S. to boycott the February Winter Olympics in China. Advertisement And if the International Olympic Committee keeps it up, there may be a call by the numerous activists among us to do the same at the Tokyo Summer Games in July. (Of course if COVID, which isn’t boycotting Tokyo, continues its surge there, The Games again may be canceled, anyway). Jimmy Carter’s presidency didn’t have much backbone, but when he ordered the United State’s boycott of...