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The Beijing Olympics are tearing down the IOC’s oldest myth: that sports are apolitical | Winter Olympics 2022 SPORTS By Jack Taylor On Jan 13, 2022 0 Share (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); Less than a month before the Beijing Winter Olympics begin, the Games are a massive political thicket. China is earning global condemnation for its human-rights abuses against Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in Xinjiang Province, what Human Rights Watch calls “crimes against humanity”. The Chinese cities of Xi’an and Yuzhou are in lockdown after experiencing the largest Covid-19 outbreak that the country has seen since the early...
