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https://www.foxnews.com/media/meghan-mccain-slams-biden-for-punting-on-olympic-committee-rewarding-china-amid-modern-genocide https://www.thestar.com.my/aseanplus/aseanplus-news/2021/05/08/chinas-xi-tells-ioc-the-winter-olympics-will-proceed-as-planned https://thecatholicuniverse.com/activists-urge-west-to-pull-out-of-chinas-genocide-games-in-2022/ https://www.dtnext.in/News/Business/2021/05/08143753/1292870/MNCs-avoid-sponsorship-questions-amid-calls-for-boycott-.vpf

The IOC is pretty popular in the UK anyway. Even most of the pro boycott people don’t really blame the IOC for giving the games to China.

https://www.ft.com/content/bf07dfb7-f70a-4008-8ab1-2b23bfbfb84d

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/beijing-winter-olympics-boycott-china-b1829974.html

https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/news/chinas-communist-dictators-must-not-allowed-host-winter-olympics Senator for the Govering Libreal Party in Australia calls for the games to be moved away from Bejing. Feels like Australia is moving towards a total boycott. More significant is that this might make Brisbane 2032 harder as it is clear an anti IOC position is developing in Australia.

Sponsors makes it a lot harder to only do diplomatic boycotts. Every single spooner of even a single athlete is getting targeted in the UK and who wants to be seen as genocide supporter. I have heard rumours that letters to likely athletes are going out soon urging them to call for the games to be moved or vow to not participate. And those that do participate will get marked ad putting personal ambition ahead of human rights. I do think people underestimate how well organised the boycott movement can be in the UK if all those opposed to China did start calling for it.

Moving on to the global stage, respondents to the poll were also asked about a possible boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in China, a country often cited for human rights violations. Asked if they would support a boycott of the games, 55 percent of the U.S. general population said yes, with only 23 percent saying no, and 22 percent saying they did not know or held no opinion. Among sports fans, support for a boycott rose to 57 percent vs. 27 percent opposed to a boycott, and among avid fans, 65 percent said yes to a boycott vs. 23 percent saying no. The don't know/no opinion responses were 16 percent and 12 percent respectively for these self-described fans. With Allies? When Americans were asked if they would support an Olympic boycott if multiple countries joined in, the "yes" numbers (in favor) rose to 60 percent for the general population, 62 percent for sports fans and stayed even at 65 percent for avid fans. Should Athletes Be Able to Participate Independently if Their Countries Boycott the Olympics? On the question of whether athletes should be able to compete without representing their countries (if their countries were boycotting), the general population said yes by more than a 2 to 1 margin (49-23 percent), with 28 percent registering don't know/no opinion. Among sports fans, the yes margin was even greater at 54-23 percent (with 23 percent don't know/no opinion). Support for athletes competing individually rose again among avid fans to 63-23 percent with 14 percent saying don't know/no opinion. https://www.shu.edu/business/news/sports-poll-finds-support-for-response-to-voting-laws.cfm Could we see teams attending next year but like Great Britain did in 1980 compete under the Olympic flag and anthem?

https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Comment/Is-talk-of-an-Olympic-boycott-real-or-diplomatic-Kabuki According to this the Japanese Goverment blackmailed their NOC to boycott in 1980.

This week the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved an amendment to a comprehensive bill on China that would require a diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics. The amendment, offered by Senators Mitt Romney (R-Utah) and Tim Kaine (D-Va.), would permit athletes to participate in the Olympics while withholding funding for high-level U.S. government participation in the Games. Such a move would express formal U.S. disapproval while stopping short of a full boycott—something which would dash American athletes’ Olympic dreams for political reasons, with little real impact. https://www.heritage.org/asia/commentary/responding-beijings-hosting-2022-olympics-should-be-team-effort

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-04-21/-diplomatic-boycott-of-beijing-olympics-added-to-china-bill https://www.macleans.ca/sports/only-athletes-pay-the-price-the-coc-president-on-the-folly-of-boycotting-the-beijing-olympics/

https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/human-rights-watch-ni-uni-should-close-institute-linked-to-chinese-communist-party-3213858 https://www.indcatholicnews.com/news/42069 https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/17308/beijing-winter-olympics-boycott

With how the republicans now seemingly hate the IOC it could well cost them 2028 if Trump returns and pulls the USA out of the IOC as he is crazy enough to do so.

‘A number of colleagues mentioned the issue of the winter Olympics. The Prime Minister has made it clear that we are not normally in favour of sporting boycotts, and of course the participation of the national team at the Olympics is a matter for the British Olympic Association, which is required to operate independently of the Government under International Olympic Committee regulations.’ The British Minster for Sport. However at least two British Poltical Parties have now adopted the position that the Games must be moved so the pressure is now on the BOA.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2021/04/22/australia-must-boycott-beijing-olympic-2022/ More calls for Australia to boycott the Winter Olympics.

UK Goverment’s response to Calls in the House of Commons for a boycott.

https://kfgo.com/2021/04/21/panel-recommends-that-u-s-officials-not-go-to-chinas-olympics/

https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/29587/for-china-boycott-of-western-products-is-a-blunt-instrument https://nypost.com/2021/04/18/athletes-have-good-reason-to-beware-xi-jinpings-winter-olympics/

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1106747/beijing-2022-human-rights-abuses https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2021/04/17/olympics/winter-olympics/human-rights-group-beijing/

https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2021/04/15/beijing-boycott-bipartisan-reps-call-for-olympic-n2587998 Democractic congressmen now starting to support a boycott. Makes it harder for Biden to not at least eventually say he would prefer no American Athletes going to Beijing.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/sports/04/15/21/olympics-athletes-have-real-concerns-about-beijing-2022-says-human-rights-group-head https://floridapolitics.com/archives/420573-michael-waltz-demands-beijing-winter-olympics-boycott/ https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/sports/kamloops-athletes-respond-to-discussion-of-boycott-of-2022-olympic-winter-games-in-beijing-1.24307696 https://japantoday.com/category/politics/japan-backpedals-on-cooperation-with-china-in-beijing-olympics

https://dealmakerz.co.uk/increasing-pressure-on-the-beijing-winter-olympics-180-organizations-call-for-boycotting-the-genocide-olympics-foreigner/

Too early to talk about boycotting China’s Winter Olympics: Blinken https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3129166/too-early-talk-about-boycotting-chinas-winter-olympics-blinken

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1106414/beijing-china-foreign-ministry-boycott