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The article is a bit unclear on what exactly was unpaid but I think the main takeaway is this:
“The rule, if passed, would figure to be mostly symbolic, given the limits an international sports federation could have on the president of a country attending an event inside his own borders,” according to AP.
“stems from years of tension after the U.S. government withheld funding in protest of the agency’s handling of a string of high-profile doping cases, including one involving Chinese swimmers.”
Yeah so kind of vague.
It would be nice to see someone, somewhere finally hold him accountable for refusing to pay his bills.
I’d support something as easy as making him take off his hat when honoring fallen soldiers, at this point. Anything.
I think he’s wearing a hat more because with dementia you get more sensitive to light. He’s been sundowning more posting throughout the night on truth social and then falling asleep in meetings during the day. It’s probably why they don’t do a lot of morning events anymore. Everything is always in the afternoon.
Come on it wasn’t a tan hat was it.
The hat thing is just a natural extension of no one in his orbit holding him accountable for decorum ever, which is most evident in his language. Sad to see, but yeah.
If they really want to piss him off just invite the Obamas and make sure they show up on cameras. The meltdown would be hilarious.
Even better, invite the Biden’s and have them introduced at the opening ceremony as the President and first lady, while Trump is in the stands watching.
Now it is my honor to introduce the undisputed and clear winner of the 2020 presidential election, President Joe Biden.
My cynical guess is the Olympics are like FIFA now, and just corrupt beholden to advertisers, so they would avoid doing anything that would alienate half of the US audience. (Though I don’t think it’s half, or even 30% anymore, but now MAGA are the party in power and they will shut you down if they don’t like what you do.)
Can we just have the IOC ban the USA? It’s not like the Olympics have ever been profitable for the host nation.
They’re hosted by cities not nations, but these games were profitable:
- London 1908 & 1948
- LA 1932 & 1984
- Sarajevo 1984
- Calgary 1988
- Seoul 1988
- Barcelona 1992
- Atlanta 1996
- Salt Lake City 2002
- Beijing 2008 & 2022
- Vancouver 2010
- Sochi 2014
- Pyeongchang 2018
- Paris 2024
Living in one of the recent cities listed
Those games were NOT PROFITABLE. The IOC, etc, SAYS they were by:
Completely discounting Policing/Security Not including any venue construction costs And a whole bunch more sleeze (not) accounting (multi Billion$, for a winter, seen 10x higher for some summer bills)
Their idiotic “profitable” rhetoric is spuriously true, if you do some bullshit accounting, whereby the ticket revenues exceed the labour bill, on-site (and never mind they conned legions of “workers” into scabbing for “room+board volunteers” which was actually a cot and hotdogs in moldy leaking freight containers)
Multi billion $ hole, that we the people pay debt servicing on eternally, and our city became a haven for international money laundering after, one of the most unaffordable places in the world now…
Its the OCOGS that report profits not the IOC.
I was confused by your list until I remembered that they didn’t change the Winter Olympics to being a different year than the Summer until 1992.
I thought this would have something to do with him killing over 150 school girls & war crimes, but nope they just want money. Fuck them & fuck Trump too!
We already violated the Olympics true, which was the basis for barring Russia from the games.
yeah, I sincerely doubt it…
