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it s interesting, obviously, the olympics have had their sort of political moments. there s a moment in mexico city where they raised their black power fists. there s, of course, jesse owens in germany, his athletic prowess demonstrating kind of the lie that is naziism. but at the same time, i wonder i saw a couple of heads shaking when cid said, oh, bans work, i saw some heads shaking at the table. i think in some of those countries, it would have worked, but russia is a totally different beast. it s still in the sort of fallen empire syndrome. and i think if you just sort of try to yell at it, it kind of recoils into itself. i don t think that that kind of pressure will change the reality on the ground for gays and lesbians in russia. so cid, i m wondering if there should be a larger in other words, when the ioc is thinking about when to place olympics, should human rights be one part of an equation? of course. if you ban russia from its own games, it s not as though ....

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