Category: Winter Olympics

US Sen. Rick Scott Calls on Australian PM to Support Relocating Winter Olympics

April 2, 2021
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U.S. Senator Rick Scott (R-Fla.) has written to Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison encouraging him to join the senator’s push for the Winter Olympic Games to be relocated away from China over its human rights violations. The U.S. senator says he has also written to U.S. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and…

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Olympic Committee Rejects Hong Kong Activist Group’s Call for Beijing Boycott

March 29, 2021
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A call by Hong Kong activists in Australia to relocate the 2022 Winter Olympics away from China to a country not tarnished by genocide and human right abuses has been knocked back by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Australia-Hong Kong Link, a group that supports democracy, freedom, rule of law, and human rights in Hong Kong,…

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Airbnb Asked to Drop Olympic Ties Over China Rights Issues

March 23, 2021
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Airbnb Inc. is being asked to drop its sponsorship connections to next year’s Beijing’s Winter Olympics by a coalition of 150 human-rights campaigners. The coalition is headed by groups that oppose rights violations in China including the detention of Muslim Uyghurs in the Xinjiang region. Airbnb is one of the International Olympic Committee’s leading 15 sponsors….

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‘Listening to Concerns:’ US Secretary of State Doesn’t Rule out Boycott of Beijing Winter Olympics

March 18, 2021
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America’s secretary of state on Wednesday didn’t rule out a U.S. boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. “We’ve heard the many concerns around the world about the prospect of those Olympics given the actions that China has taken both at home in terms of its abuse of human rights when it comes to the…

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