Having gotten into trouble for selling T-shirts honoring the 1936 Olympics, complete with Nazi imagery (though thankfully no swastikas), it strikes me that the IOC ought to be consistent and stop selling shirts and swag from:
- Moscow 1980
- Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936
- Sarajevo 1984
- Beijing 2008
- Sochi 2014
- Beijing 2022
Now of course, the odds of the IOC ticking off China and Russia by no longer recognizing and honoring those Olympiads are nil, as the Olympics quickly veered away from Pierre de Coubertin's ideal of a non-political games--really during the early 1900s.
Which explains, I guess, why the IOC has no problem with video game characters on skeleton racers' helmets, but banned a competitor who wanted to honor other athletes of his country who had been murdered by Russia in their illegal war on Ukraine. Totalitarianism is job 1 for the IOC...
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