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A packed Verona Arena couldn’t save a Closing Ceremony athletes didn’t want. Team USA men’s hockey gold came by Milano Cortina robbery, not Miracle-on-Ice magic. Johannes Klæbo became the Winter Games GOAT. Eileen Gu delivered drama. China collapsed. For all its flaws, though, Milano Cortina 2026 delivered the Games the Olympics are supposed to be.… Read more.
China does not permit dual citizenship. But, like all authoritarian regimes, it is notorious for imposing rules on the masses which they allow the elites (e.g., like Putin’s oligarchs) to flout. And so it was that China permitted Eileen Gu to reap all the benefits of representing China at the Beijing 2022 Olympics without having… Read more.
China has spent much of the past five years jailing Hong Kongers for demanding democratic freedoms. The government considers such demands seditious challenges to its authoritarian rule. Mind you, those Hong Kongers were merely demanding freedoms China promised. This, as part of the infamous “one country, two systems policy” colonial Britain negotiated as a condition… Read more.
The Opening Ceremony for the Beijing 2022 Olympics gets underway today. But count me among those who will be jeering, not cheering. In fact, I was in the vanguard of those who called for a conventional boycott. Notably, The New York Times published an Op-Ed on March 15, 2021 by Sen. Mitt Romney titled “The… Read more.
