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

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The World Cup in Brazil

Russia hosted the World Cup in what? 2018. And they hosted the Sochi Olympics in 2014. That was a winter Olympics cycle. Then four years later, they got the World Cup. Same year as the 2018 Winter Olympics, which I think were in South Korea. They hosted in Rio, the Olympics in 2016, and then when was the World Cup there? I forget. 14. Okay. The conditions were so bad that they had to have the mandatory hydration breaks during the game. There are no timeouts. It was so shitty to play there.

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