Challenging China on its human rights record ahead of Beijing hosting the 2022 Winter Games doesn t fall under the Olympics "remit," IOC VP John Coates said Wednesday.
International Olympic Committee Vice President John Coates says challenging China on its human rights record as Beijing prepares to host the 2022 Winter Games is “not in our remit."
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Come July, Takahiro Katsumi’s home city of Saitama is on deck to host some of the Summer Olympics’ most prominent events, including basketball, soccer and golf.
It’s an alarming prospect for Katsumi, a 48-year-old translator whose wife is battling lung cancer. He worries that Japan’s healthcare system, already strained from high infection and death rates in a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, would be overwhelmed if Olympic visitors trigger another surge leaving his wife even more vulnerable.
To Katsumi, forging ahead with the Tokyo Olympics is an unreasonable risk that will leave the Japanese public shouldering the regret and consequences after the athletes and the world’s spotlight have come and gone.