The International Olympic Committee has long sought to cast the Games as a platform for peace and neutrality, but some observers say the Olympics is inextricably linked to global politics and tensions.
Police walk outside the perimeter of the Olympic Village, past housing for the Spanish, Italian and Moroccan teams, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 23, 2024, in Paris, France. PARIS: The upcoming Paris Olympic Games is taking place in a deeply divided world rife with ongoing conflicts, big-power rivalry, and cybersecurity risks.
A new exhibition in Paris, titled"Olympism: A History of the World", retraces 130 years of the Olympic Games through art, rare documents, films and photographs. These iconic moments where politics mixed with sport include the civil rights struggle in the United States and the end of apartheid in South Africa.“We have well-known examples like the boycotts of the 1980s,” said Olivier Bedoin, exhibition assistant at the National Museum of History and Immigration.
A gold medallist of 2022 Europe Championships and a member of the Ukrainian Olympic judo team Bogdan Iadov poses for a picture with his teammates and his family member, who currently serves in Ukrainian army, before boarding a train to the Paris 2024 Olympics via Poland, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine July 23, 2024. REUTERS/Alina Smutko
The IOC has stated that it is politically neutral and is strongly against the politicisation of sport, but this is a position that some experts question.
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