As International Olympic Committee officials were attacked in recent years over their refusal to weigh in on alleged rights abuses in China, they stuck rigidly to one retort: The IOC is an impartial body and sport must be insulated from politics. “The position of the IOC must be, given [our] political neutrality, that we are not commenting on political issues,”.
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Double Beijing 2022 speed skating champion Nils van der Poel has given
one of his Olympic gold medals to a woman whose father was jailed in
China for "unsubstantiated" spying offences.