Speaking strictly as a sports fan, the IOC dropped the ball when it refused a moment of silence for the massacre of 11 Israeli athletes in Munich in 1972.
The operative word being "athletes." As in these people were Olympians.
I suppose the request was a foregone conclusion, what with the games being held in a politically correct nation given to them by a politically correct organization of the IOC.
The President of the IOC Jacques Rogge did little to offer a valiant or acceptable reason for not doing so choosing instead to chicken out.
Sad.
The IOC is a corrupt political entity onto itself much like FIFA. Denying Israel's request was a sham and only further embeds the utter hypocrisy (very much like the UN) of this organization.
It's a shame really. It's not about politics but athletics. Or supposed to be anyway.
I don't want to believe it but it's hard not to think the reason they chose to was because it was Israel.
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