BEIJING – There are many reasons to despise the 2022 Winter Olympics. Let’s start with the obvious: they shouldn’t be here.
It will be an eternal stain on the already-dubious reputation of the International Olympic Committee that it gave the awful, repressive Chinese regime the opportunity to host its second Games in 14 years. The human rights abuses of the nation where I sit writing this column are reprehensible. My colleagues and I will report and talk about that every single day of these Games.
But the fact is, the Olympics are here, and they begin with Friday’s opening ceremony.