The writer is a member of the International Olympic Committee and won a bronze at the 1976 Olympics
A chorus of voices — from UK politicians to Nikki Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN — have recently called for their countries to boycott the 2022 Beijing Olympic Winter Games. They’ve argued that their nations’ athletes should not participate because of the actions of the Chinese government.
In their use of the games as a political tool, I hear disturbing echoes of a similar effort four decades ago. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Jimmy Carter as president threatened a US boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
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