The spotlight on the International Olympic Committee is going to be mighty uncomfortable these next 11 months, and president Thomas Bach and his buddies have no one to blame but themselves.
Criticism of 2022 Olympics host Beijing escalated Monday when U.S. Sen. Mitt Romney published an op-ed in the New York Times calling for an American economic and diplomatic boycott of the next Winter Games over China’s raft of human rights violations.
It’s too late to strip Beijing of the 2022 Olympics, Romney wrote, and full-scale boycotts make little impact. But Romney said that doesn’t mean the rest of the Olympic movement, led by the United States, should simply shrug its shoulders and say, “Oh well!