on friday the opening ceremony of the 2022 winter olympics will get under way in beijing. president putin will be there, president biden will not. in fact many western leaders are buoycotting the event. yet despite the condemnation of china's behaviour towards zinjiang, hong kong, taiwan, tibet, the ioc remains silent. their mission they say is to "build a peaceful and better world," and the olympics will remain an apolitical event. i have been speaking to a sporting star who refuses to be silenced, despite the pressure from the nba and many of his fellow basketball players. he is enes kanter freedom, who plays for the boston celtics. the ioc is scared to talk about human rights because they know the chinese want to foist this regard this and they would the money and talk about values and i see this