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Hosting the Olympcs & World Cup: Business, Distraction, and Sportwashing

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The Olympics and the Russian Invasion

Authoritarians and dictators use sports to scrub away all the negative aspects of their image. You can look back at the history of like the Soviet Union and see that, even games as simple as chess. And that's because they use sports as a thing that people can kind of like culturally latch on to and support.

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