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Jeff Merkley: “The International Olympic Committee has placed the world's athletes in the untenable position of making them essentially…”

On the recordNovember 16, 2021
The International Olympic Committee has placed the world's athletes in the untenable position of making them essentially complicit in China's effort to use the Olympics to paint a very beautiful vision of their country and to basically hide the genocide that they are engaged in against the Uyghur community and other ethnic and religious minorities.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley criticizes the IOC for complicity in China's actions during the Olympics.

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