China accuses U.S. of politicizing Winter Olympics as boycott talk mounts

I am an American siding with China on this one. The Olympic Games should be apolitical.

You cannot be serious. Since when have totalitarian regimes NOT used Olympics as political propoganda? Germany, Russia and Communist China. Every single time.

Boycott the Genocide Games 2022.

i hope they get boycotted and even as far as embargoed

Says the country that politicizes everything. And lies to boot.

Beijing got the 2008 Olympics on the promise that they would liberalize and move closer towards democracy.

Guess what?

https://www.dw.com/en/how-china-changed-after-2008-beijing-olympics/a-44986744

Good. China's atrocities against the Uighurs cannot be ignored. If countries do not boycott Beijing, individual athletes should consider doing so.

Mr The Fu,

i have been and still am managing top athletes. The majority of athletes do not only train for olympics, actually almost none of them. The Olympics is one event, and we can hold it safely with no problems in 2022. The importance of the olympics are fading. One can not build a career on the olympics. It can give an extra boost in normal times but these olympics bring no joy and it remains to be seen if they will not taint athletes reputations depending on the outcome of things. Among my athletes over a hundred were olympic medalists and currently i work indirectly with maybe 30 to 40 potential medalists. I am against their participation in Tokyo and they know that. I am against to an important degree because as a professional i think it will harm their image and mainly because the games in 2021 are a health risk to high to take.

Let's not honor the Chinese government by having heads of state go to China,

I'm no fan of Nancy, but this has got to be one of the best things she's ever said. LOL

When people say boycott, I ask what did the 1980 and 1984 boycotts accomplish?

The 80 boycott denied a totalitarian dictatorship the attention and legitimacy it desperately craved. "See? We are not a bunch to drunken brutes! We are holding the Olympics!" China is the same.

The 84 boycott allowed the overwhelming majority of clean athletes to actually compete against other clean athletes (Ben Johnson excepted) and not against doped up Warsaw pact human/horse hybrids.

That is what they accomplished.

Boycott the dictator games.

If Biden won’t hold the CCP responsible for COVID, why would he hold them responsible for Uighers?

If the US want to or are gonna boycott the games they should say so now.

They can't decide for themselves?

Thief shouts catch the thief... Selective memory is a beach...

Boycott China's Olympic games

Robert said: i have been and still am managing top athletes.

I only asked a question. What long-lasting good came from any Olympic boycott?

How many shot-put experts do you manage? Or javelin experts? Bet those people are rolling in the cash! Er ... perhaps not.

Sport being hijacked by silly diaper politicians, Uighur Genocide is a hoax, it's the lies of the century, according to China Foreign Ministry......the IOC and world knew the dirty trick of the west, as they did the same in 2008 Beijing Olympic on Tibet issues.

Did Uighur refugees come running in boatload to Europe?? did anyone get killed in Xinjiang except those die hards jihadists, terrorists, separatists, Those that live on the fallacy are ETIM sympathizer spewing disinformation on genocide. The western world/US generated 90% of the world’s refugees, due to their relentless bombing and killing that cost the lives of 11 million innocent civilians and their children in 9 middle eastern countries. These are not genocide?? not crime against humanity?? how buffoonish of those hijack and distort the version of genocide over a sport event. Your ancestors should be proud of you!!

Well good for them to boycott, who cares, 5-Lies Alliance + chihuahua who else?? there are 200 countries last count.

https://www.globalresearch.ca/u-s-regime-has-killed-20-30-million-people-since-world-war-ii/5633111/amp

Good. China's atrocities against the Uighurs cannot be ignored. If countries do not boycott Beijing, individual athletes should consider doing so.

I hope a lot of countries will boycott L.A. 2028, people cannot ignore atrocities made by unites states of america in Yemen, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Lybia of forget all the people died due to bombs in Serbia

and from now to 2028 I'm sure the great US Army will keep going in killing people.

asking the athletes to stay away from either Olympic is useless, they have shown their selfishness , sufficiently on Tokyo

Train for 6 hrs a day for 5-15 yrs and don't get to compete? The year of the Olympics is the only time those athletes get to be selfish. They've earned it. All the other years, they don't have time to be selfish any more than a single-income family can afford for the only person with a job to stay home. These are not wealthy people - except those few sports where someone can be both a professional player AND still be allowed in the Olympics - golf, baseball, basketball and tennis. It isn't like Olympic Judo pays well.

When people say boycott, I ask what did the 1980 and 1984 boycotts accomplish?

I hope Winter Olympics doesn't go ahead in China as they're purging the Uyghurs minority. I don't want Olympics to be a political statement but if it can be leveraged to pressure a country to clean up their act, then I'm all for it!

They are over their skis on this one

From a practical view, winter olympics are much more difficult to move to another location. Bob slee tracks are few and between. I guess only the Us could do it or Pyeonchang( not sure the bob track is still there). Japan will have a bellyfull of the Olympics. There ars always solutions though, but must be decided latest September.

I agree to take away the Games from China for humanitarian and political reasons. The Tokyo Games must be postponed to 2022. It is a lie numbers are down in Tokyo, they are manipulated. We are currently( only even with official numbers ) at a yearly mortality rate of 36500 ( 100 per day) or about 5x what it was last year in Japan.

asking the athletes to stay away from either Olympic is useless, they have shown their selfishness , sufficiently on Tokyo

Hitler tried to show the world that Aryan athletes were the best in the world. Jesse Owens, among others, proved the Nazis were wrong. If the games had been boycotted, he never would have had a chance to shine.

I am an American siding with China on this one. The Olympic Games should be apolitical.