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The British government seem pretty desperate to not upset China so if that stratgey collapses a full boycot is likely.

https://www.opindia.com/2021/02/canada-athletes-china-beijing-winter-olympics-2022/ Do they want the government to ban them?

I mean it's still possible the government themselves would put pressure on the BOA but without the Tory backbenches it's not at all likely to come via major Tory legislative rebellion. However the Biden Administration would have to u-turn first as not likely the UK will pull out without the USA.

It's one of the more likely but don't rule out countries interfering because a lot of the pro boycott people in the UK want the BOA to intefer. However without the tory rebels they have no chance of forcing legislation to implement a BOA boycott through.

https://www.eppingforestguardian.co.uk/news/19073263.mp-calls-britain-boycott-beijing-winter-olympics-2022/ U turn from IDS who now is only calling for a goverment boycott and atheltes to decide for himself.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9236073/China-threatens-sanctions-2022-Winter-Olympics-boycott-calls.html https://www.scmp.com/sport/china/article/3120970/beijing-2022-china-will-seriously-sanction-any-country-boycotts-winter The IOC will split in two if they unable to condem this type of talk

I can see some going sooner due to the mental health aspect of a late boycott on competitors

The Canadian committee's know their government will eventually make them boycott - they sound pretty worried they going to be forced out of 2022 one way or another.

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1103933/canada-beijing-2022-olympics https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/lib-dems-team-gb-should-boycott-beijing-winter-olympics-over-uyghur-persecution/

It's why I can easily see one 2024/2026/2028 doing a Denver.

It's the reason why if 2022 goes ahead good luck even getting 2024/2026/2028 all done without at least one doing a Denver and 2030 onwards won't find a democratic country willing to host.

https://www.expressandstar.com/news/uk-news/2021/02/07/team-gb-should-boycott-beijing-olympics-if-uighur-camps-not-closed-lib-dems/

Ed Davey - “No doubt we will hear teams, sponsors and governing bodies say the Olympics and Paralympics should be separate from politics and that they are just concentrating on sport. But in the face of genocide, that just isn’t good enough,” Davey said. “The 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games will be used as a propaganda tool for a regime committing genocide. Team GB, ParalympicsGB and the government have a moral responsibility to consider if sending a team to these Games is really the right thing to do.” He said that unless the Chinese government ordered the closure of detention camps in Xinjiang, ended Uighur forced labour and ethnic cleansing, stopped sterilising Uighur women and stopped the torture and rape of Uighurs, then Team GB, ParalympicsGB and ministers should announce a boycott. “Our brightest and best athletes should not be forced to be part of a propaganda exercise for the Chinese Communist party while it tries to wipe the Uighur people off the face of the planet.” Chris Bryant - Bryant said: “All five categories of genocide behaviour, according to the Genocide Convention, are already in play in Xinjiang province. So I think it’s just extraordinary that the British government seems to have no backbone about it. “I just can’t see why anybody would want to go to the Winter Olympics in Beijing. And I think the British Olympic Association should be calling for the Winter Olympics to move, and if it doesn’t move, then we should be boycotting it.”

I am 100% certain no British athletes will be going to Beijing - no way can the government resist this type of pressure. The BOA will either reluctantly accept under the pressure of 2024 and 2026 funding being removed. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/06/mps-urge-british-olympians-to-boycott-2022-beijing-winter-games https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mps-call-for-relocation-of-2022-beijing-olympics-1.5904286 I feel like 2021 might well see some countries resigning from the IOC longer term.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/_US_senators_urge_IOC_to_remove_2022_Winter_Olympics_from_China

Some on here simply don't get how hated China is now and how plenty of governments will have no choice but to ban their countries from going.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/asia/300222683/beijing-2022-winter-olympics-labelled-genocide-games-as-nations-consider-boycott-over-human-rights-issues

How would the IOC respond if the BBC are refused all visas to enter China to cover the games?

https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/olympics-beijing-boycott-not-answer-145808364.html

https://news.yahoo.com/gop-senators-introduce-resolution-calling-205300488.html This is pointless but if the GOP permanently turn on the IOC a republican win in 2024 could see them cancel 2028.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/04/beijing-2022-180-human-rights-groups-call-for-winter-olympics-boycott White house not planing a boycot atm.

Statement on China tomorrow in the uk commons - I suspect they will be a non committal answer to any boycott demands.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/rights-groups-call-for-boycott-of-beijing-2022-winter-games-international-olympic-committee-china-human-rights-abuses-boycott-minorities-b1796734.html https://www.nst.com.my/world/world/2021/02/662805/world-leaders-urged-boycott-beijing-2022-winter-olympics I can see it being official policy for at least one country very soon.

Latest developments increase the likelihood of the UK boycotting. https://nationalpost.com/pmn/news-pmn/how-to-protest-chinas-human-rights-violations-without-boycotting-the-2022-olympics