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TOKYO For all the International Olympic Committee talks of staying neutral, its games have long proven to be essentially and sometimes overtly political for the Games overall, and often for the athletes who are intended to entertain the world in a two-week global show. Case in point: diplomatic eruptions. Hundreds of athletes have come to an Olympic Games and never returned to the home nation they represented in the pool, on the mat or on the track. Their stories since 1948, when the Olympics resumed in London after a wartime pause, confirm that when the world meets for sports, politics is always there. ....
Krystsina Tsimanouskaya, of Belarus, runs in the women’s 100-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021. (AP Photo) For all the International Olympic Committee talks of staying neutral, its games have long proven to be essentially and sometimes overtly political for the Games overall, and often for the athletes who are intended to entertain the world in a two-week global show. Case in point: diplomatic eruptions. Hundreds of athletes have come to an Olympic Games and never returned to the home nation they represented in the pool, on the mat or on the track. Their stories since 1948, when the Olympics resumed in London after a wartime pause, confirm that when the world meets for sports, politics is always there. ....
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