Took knowledge this. Looks with the woodrow levesque said to open, russia is facing a storm of controversy over its icon on activists from environmental activist to gay rights. Have called for a boycott of the games. We will look at a site of the olympic aims you wont see in the walltowall coverage from sochi. I will give you examples of a couple of key points you see throughout the Olympic Games. One of them is a crackdown on ordinary people. The other is the tearing down of public housing. One of the biggest ones, which is one of the things i think is the most are the biggest concern is ramping up up police powers. We will speak with a number of guest, Samantha Retrosi competed in the luege in the 2006 games, Jules Boykoff is a former member of the u. S. Olympic soccer team, he wrote the real cost of the olympics. We will also speak with dave zirin and canadian professor Helen Lenskyj, author of, sexual diversity and the sochi 2014 olympics no more rainbows. All of that and more comi
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,”.