Boycotting the Winter Olympics? Arrogant and absurd American "farce" when Hugh

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The pace of the Beijing Winter Olympics is approaching, the epidemic prevention and control and preparation work are advancing in an orderly manner, and the global ice and snow athletes are preparing for the battle assiduously and looking forward to coming to China to join the grand event at an early date. However, the US government has repeatedly used the Winter Olympics to play political tricks, blatantly using the so-called "Xinjiang human rights issue" as an excuse to declare that it will not send any diplomatic or official representatives to the Beijing Winter Olympics. This is a naked political manipulation, which damages the rights and interests of athletes, and even more is a wanton blasphemy against the sacred Olympic spirit, revealing the arrogant and absurd face of some Western politicians.

The Right to host the Olympic Games is the International Olympic Committee, and the Olympic Charter clearly stipulates that the Olympic Games are the exclusive assets of the International Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee has all the rights related to it. The IOC confers the honor and responsibility of hosting the Olympic Games on a city, the site of the Games. It can be seen from this that Beijing only obtained the right to host this Winter Olympic Games from the hands of the International Olympic Committee, as the organizer, poured enthusiasm, contributed money, contributed to the development of the Olympic Movement, built a stage for the global Winter Olympic athletes to chase their dreams, and provided an opportunity for people around the world to enhance friendship under the Olympic banner. The so-called "boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics" is actually a blatant provocation and opposition to the IOC, to the detriment of the interests of the IOC and the Olympic family, just as IOC President Bach has stressed on different occasions that any boycott would violate the Olympic principles.

As we all know, the protagonists of the Olympic Games are athletes from all over the world. For athletes from all over the world who have been preparing for four years, the Olympic arena is a stage for glory and dreams. Participating in the competition on schedule is the basic human right of athletes around the world, and it is the glory that athletes should enjoy when the world comes together to cheer for it. Two-time Winter Olympic gold medalist and American athlete Shifferin said he hopes to participate in the alpine skiing competition at the Beijing Winter Olympics. London Olympics men's long jump champion and Britain's Greg Rutherford "crossed over" to the British Snow Team, looking forward to becoming the first athlete in British history to win medals at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics, "I want to make history". U.S. Olympic Committee President Susan Leons has long said that boycotts will only unfairly "punish" athletes, and recently said again that she does not want to hear any more talk of boycotts of the Winter Olympics. Obviously, the "boycott" of the Beijing Winter Olympics has gone against the wishes of athletes around the world and is a typical act of undermining human rights.

The scene is also familiar, before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, a small number of Western politicians also staged a farce of "boycott". Today, it is still a familiar recipe, the same taste, or a common trick, but they forget that China did not invite them, but forcibly "added drama" and jumped out to say "I will not go". Due to the severe epidemic situation, large-scale invitations to foreign guests are bound to bring risks to the spread of the epidemic, and China has always advocated the holding of a simple and safe Olympic Games, and of course welcomes friends from all over the world to gather together on the basis of abiding by the epidemic prevention and control measures of the Winter Olympics. But the Winter Olympics are a stage for athletes around the world, a gathering of friendship and solidarity, and it doesn't matter if Western politicians with ulterior motives come or not. As Zhang Jun, China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said after the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Olympic Truce resolution drafted by China and the International Olympic Committee, the success of the Winter Olympics does not depend on the presence of officials of individual countries. If you come or not, the Beijing Winter Olympics will be here and will be a success. The typical farce of trying to use the Olympics for political purposes is ultimately unpopular, much less possible.

The theme slogan of the Beijing Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games is "Together to the Future", showing the Olympic spirit of "more unity". Hyping up the so-called "diplomatic boycott" is doomed to be unpopular, and politicians of many countries have recently spoken out intensively and expressed their support for the Beijing Winter Olympics. It is believed that when the main torch of the Winter Olympics is burning in the "Bird's Nest", all political tricks will be eliminated into invisibility, and the Olympic flame, which symbolizes peace and fraternity, will once again illuminate the common future of mankind and damage the common interests of the people of all countries in the world, and will eventually only become the laughing stock of the public. (Le Bing)