Comments by "Catherine Birch" (@catherinebirch8263) on "How Olympic Host Countries Are Chosen by the IOC and the History of Corruption" video.

  1. 4:10 This documents an occasion when despite pressure from the American President, an American city was excluded in the first round. In other words, an occasion when the IOC, to its credit, withstood external pressure. 6:53 This concerns corruption within Russia by Putin over assigning building contracts. It has nothing to do with IOC corruption and has presumably only been included, along with many other negative Russian narratives, because the US is currently in the middle of its latest proxy war with Russia. (If there's been no construction related corruption within the US when it hosted the Olympics I'll eat my hat.) The slanted commentary on the 2024 Games is striking! A country that has been told by the ICJ to get out of the areas it is occupying and to stop massacring civilians, has been allowed to compete. Russia has supposedly been banned for invading Ukraine. However the juxtaposition of differential treatment of Israel and Russia is stark. The most obvious suspect country for having applied extreme pressure to bring that contradictory result being ... well, the wealthy, powerful country that led the illegal invasion of a little country on the other side of the world in 2003 and was NOT banned.
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