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Originally Posted by prototoast
Meanwhile, you've got multiple world tour teams run by government officials of countries with atrocious human rights records.
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This is called
Sports Washing and it is nothing new. It happens in many other sports, including soccer/football, motor sports, boxing, etc. Nations often host the Olympics for Sports Washing reasons. I suppose sports journalists don't talk about it more because that would be biting the hand that feeds.