Scott Stinson: Beijing Olympics are kicking off the Year of Sportswashing

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Scott Stinson: One could be forgiven for assuming that the only reason Beijing is about to host the Winter Olympics is bribery. But, no. The case for the Beijing Olympics was much simpler: there was no one else to host it.

are very much of a piece in a different way, though. This is the Year of Sportswashing — a term that will get a lot of use in the coming months, which denotes the use of a feel-good event like a sports competition to burnish the public-relations reputation of an entity that has some challenges in that regard.

FIFA’s decision to award its jewel to Qatar has been under heavy criticism since the moment it was made. Aside from the weather and general concerns over its human-rights record, Qatar’s use of a largely immigrant labour force to construct its World Cup stadiums has been a particular flashpoint. Critics have likened the arrangement to slave labour and reports have suggested that the number of workers to have died during stadium construction is in the thousands.

Where is the tipping point? And if the rest of the world wasn’t ready to pull out of China or Qatar, is the answer that there isn’t a tipping point?

 

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Both things are true. The iocmedia have been taking Beijing’s bribes for years and no other country wanted the nonsense.

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