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If it were up to me, I'd have the athletes wear uniforms that alternatively "Olympic games, presented by Xinjiang concentration camps!", "Olympic Games, presented by no idea how the Coronavirus started, because there has been no investigation allowed in China around it origins.", and "Olympic Games, don't complain if you get raped because you'll end up locked in your house like Peng Shuai."

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As funny as that would be, I don't think the athletes would be safe making any kind of political statements directly.

I think that sums it up. How is it possible we are having an Olympics in such a place?

TBF we had the olympics in Nazi Germany so it's not like this is breaking some existing streak of IOC virtue.

Why do we continue to have that venue be the place where we have our athletes go then?

Because the athlets train to be the best in the world so taking that from them is punishing.

bump it up by a year and set it up in different country.

Because the international olympic committee is quite possibly the most corrupt sporting organization on the planet, which is saying something when FIFA exists.

Amen

World Athletics is up there too.

'We have had a second videocall with Peng Shuai' levels of corruption.

You may want to check out 1936 Summer Olympics.

shouldn't there be guidance that no athelete that has ever made any kind of political statement on public or semi-public forums (facebook, twitter, tiktok, google plus) is unsafe?

Guidance to whom? The CCP is going to do its own thing. There's no reason for it to listen to the IOC.

country's state departments (or their equivalents) often give guidance to their citizens travelling abroad about what sorts of safety concerns they might face.

Edit: oh i just realized I wrote "unsafe", I meant "safe".

Much simpler to just put Winnie the Pooh on the outfits.

It would be easier to just boycott the Beijing olympics. Foreign athletes are probably going to spend two weeks in quarantine anyway, like it happened at the 2021 Australian Open hotel arrest.

The US really needs to get its priorities in order first cause they could just wear shirts that mock America's slave labor prison system among many other things.

There's Charter rule 50 for politicization of uniforms. For which PRC athletes got warnings over in Tokyo for Mao pins. PRC will probably scrutinize thoroughly, and who knows which athlete's covid test turns positive and have to miss their event for 3 week quarantine

Just emblazon them with “Remember Tiananmen Square”. I’d love to see China try and censor its own Olympics.

How about a graphic of a woman standing in front of a tank? That makes a clear point while removing the language barrier...

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