With roots in ancient Greece, the modern Olympic Truce has been readily embraced by the international community. But what exactly is it? And what's the point when hostilities have never really ceased during the Games? AP explains.
A U.N. resolution upholding the Olympic Truce has been passed 15 times. The continuous renewal each Olympics is based in the idealism that undergirds the modern Games and perhaps international law in general: It’s aspirational.
Basically, it comes down to semantics and mental gymnastics. Instead of “openly flouting the Olympic Truce, they may say it doesn’t apply. They may say, ‘This isn’t what it’s meant for,’” Rofe says. “But no one’s just gone: ‘Not today, thank you.’”There really aren’t any. At most, an aggressor takes a hit in the court of public opinion, but that typically matters little.
but was not among the 173 members that co-sponsored it. That marked a change from the Tokyo Olympics, when the U.S. did co-sponsor that resolution. In its explanation, the U.S. Mission to the U.N. took issue with parts of the China-introduced resolution. that it deemed not “inter-governmentally agreed language.”
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