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Money.



That's probably a lot of it. I read the IOC president's dogding of a question about Uyghurs[1] the other day, and his TL;DR is "The show must go on.". Why does he think must it go on? Probably because his paycheck depends on satisfying McDonald's, Coca Cola, and whoever else sponsors the games.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/feb/03/the-elite-and-...




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