Originally Posted by
jimnyc
Correct about the IOC as all they care about is folks remaining in power and making $$$. Kinda like too many in our government.
Not sure, but they're going to lose a LOT of funding plus games revenue if the West boycotts. Thirty four countries isn't the same as the US in 80. I had and have issues with governments boycotting at the expense of the athletes.
At the same time, especially in commie countries, their athletes are 100% state-sponsored and doped. Excluding Russia's athletes should but won't send a message to Russian athletes to voice their opinions but they can't. They can't even say no to the roids. Take them or get a job in Russia.
The IOC is an incompetent as every other global alphabet bureaucracy. But how do you fix them? Create another, like bureaucracy to replace them?
It should be easier than this.
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.” Edumnd Burke
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