Olympics

The United States may do a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympic games because of human rights. T Athletes can still participate though. They have boycotted before as a full blown boycott in 1980.

              The Games will be held in China. A lot of human rights violations there. Like if you protest that’s a 5-6yarm  prision sentence. Also some Canadians have been locked up there for reasons I don’t know.

              A diplomatic boycott means that athletes  can participate but have no government  officials there. This includes the president, vice president and everyone else. But it wont hurt the athletes who have worked all their lives to compete.   They still, might compete under the USA or Olympic flag.

              The 1980 boycott is the biggest in history. The United States were joined by 63 nations to protest the Russian invasion of Afghanistan. The games were in the Soviet Union. Others competed but boycotted the ceremonies and competed under the Olympic flag.  The Russians then boycotted our games 4 years later with many eastern bloc countries.

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