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".