Jeff Merkley actually said...

"If a nation promised improvements on human rights to meet certain human rights standards and they failed to meet those, would you encourage the IOC to have a practice of moving the Games?"

"We would continue to express our views and values around human rights and encourage them to be in the selection and engage with host governments on this important topic."

"This is not even a question about a particular system of government. This is about genocide."

"The Olympic Games exist to uplift the human spirit. Yet, unless something dramatically changes, in a few months' time the Games will be held in a country that continues to mercilessly crush the human ..."