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Edge of Sports: Olympics Committee and Beijing, Peas in a Pod

By the time you read this, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, set for February 4–20, will be underway—unless they’ve been canceled at the last moment due to the pandemic. But that’s probably not going to happen. As we saw in Tokyo last summer, the Inter…

By the time you read this, the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, set for February 4–20, will be underway—unless they’ve been canceled at the last moment due to the pandemic. But that’s probably not going to happen. As we saw in Tokyo last summer, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has never minded the games becoming a global superspreader event if the alternative is losing ungodly sums of television revenue.


This content originally appeared on The Progressive — A voice for peace, social justice, and the common good and was authored by Dave Zirin.


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