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The local politicians in my city that lured the IOC here through bribes were all later parachuted into lucrative foreign service diplomatic posts and various IO
by pakled_engineer 11y ago
The local politicians in my city that lured the IOC here through bribes were all later parachuted into lucrative foreign service diplomatic posts and various IOC connected director positions after. That's the true legacy of the games, the politicians raise their profile, network with the world's elite and move into international politics while the rest of us pay for their promotions.
Having the winter olympics in Switzerland only would make sense, easy to secure, neutral country, no forced relocation of "undesireables" like when Beijing shipped every Mongolian migrant laborer out of the city, or when my government mass imprisoned as many homeless as they could by picking them all up for unpaid fines.
No country would have an edge with exclusive track access for months before allowing competitor teams in to practice either.
- domador 11y agoWhat is your city / country?
- titanomachy 11y agoSounds like Vancouver, the 2010 hosts.
- tellthetruth1 11y agoOh yeah. Let those Europeans have it. No corruptions! No country would have an edge because no country is within 1000km radius of Switzerland.
- yitchelle 11y agoDon't forget the quick access to their secret Swiss bank accounts... /sarcasm
- MichaelGG 11y agoBetter yet, do what you can to ignore and shun these corrupt proceedings. The Olympics depends on people treating it as something special. Same for FIFA. Mock people wearing Qatar shirts, just as you would someone promoting homeopathy.
- diminish 11y ago>> people treating it as something special. Same for FIFA Formula 1 racing had a similar "fraud" scheme where a lot of countries invested in racing circuits which were left unused then[1]. I remember the politics, media manipulating people into believing they earn billions of dollars in PR for their government investing in circuit construction. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Formula_One_circuits
- paganel 11y ago> Mock people wearing Qatar shirts, just as you would someone promoting homeopathy. I don't this ending well. First of all, the athletes should not get involved in any of this politics stuff. Second, it is well known that all the World Cup and Olympic Games tournaments post 1990 (at least) were awarded based on corruption, even the 2006 World Cup hosted in Germany. So, I don't see any reason to single out the Qataris.
- joshkpeterson 11y agoHave you not read about what is going on in Qatar??
- paganel 11y agoOf course I have. But where do we stop? Should we also ban the USA from organizing a future World Cup tournament because of its disastrous foreign policy which has caused unnecessary deaths numbering more than 1 million people in the last 15-20 years? Should we ban Russia from hosting the 2018 World Cup because of its Ukraine policy? And so on and so on.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoWhy should an athlete not get involved in "any of this politics stuff"? They are individuals as well and have as much right to political speech, thought, and action as every other individual on the planet. They may have even been granted a platform where their speech can be more effective because of the respect and attention that many in the world pay those athletes. Censorship, voluntary or otherwise, should be routinely rejected.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoBeijing shipped out the Uyghurs, not the Mongolians (there aren't that many Mongolian migrants to begin with).