Posted on 12/24/2021 11:18:28 AM PST by SeekAndFind
As some sports leagues embarrass themselves with actions antithetical to American values, the National Hockey League followed the right path earlier this week.
Professional hockey, which planned to pause their season for three weeks in early 2022 to accommodate players traveling to Communist China, made a bold decision by announcing this week the league will not compete in the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics.
Some hockey fans may be disappointed, but they’re likely sentient enough to know it’s the right move.
The “Genocide and State-Sanctioned Kidnapping Games,” as they should be called, should of course have no American presence.
A noxious country that spits on human rights, places ethnic minorities in concentration camps, and is a political enemy of the United States and the West should not be honored; it should be condemned.
We did it!!
Today @JoeBiden signed into law a bill which will ban imports from Xinjiang region to the U.S, unless they can prove it wasn’t made with slave labor.
This will finally stop the abuse of Uyghurs!
The bill will ultimately punish China’s economy.– Take that @Nike https://t.co/p8nF2gRF9P pic.twitter.com/5yP8IX7kvP
— Enes Kanter FREEDOM (@EnesFreedom) December 23, 2021
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I don’t think it’s going to happen now. I expect them to be cancelled.
The protocol Beijing has in place is also troubling. If an Olympic athlete tests positive for coronavirus, the player has to quarantine in China for three to five weeks. Being stuck in an authoritarian country thousands of miles from home for a month does not seem safe or appealing.
The NHL needs those three weeks to complete some of the postponed games. And on the business side, ticket sales from those games, as well as food, beverage, merchandise, and television revenue, need to be recouped from losses caused by the China virus. The league has already postponed 50 games this season.
Unless you’re Nike, LeBron James, or Google, you understand that rogue regimes don’t deserve respect from the rest of the world.
Say, I never knew NHL was a country.
When was NHL the country created then?
Money talks. Protesters walk.
No. The NHL hates doing the Olympics. They’re always looking for an out.
RE: I don’t think it’s going to happen now. I expect them to be cancelled.
Yeah, the Tokyo Olympics was also cancelled in 2020, but then it resumed in 2021.
But in the case of Beijing, It’s not just Covid that’s the issue.
I think the NHL realized that they couldn’t take three weeks off for the Olympics AND postpone chunks of games for COVID in the same season. If this was done for political reasons, all well and good, but I suspect it’s a painless way to keep their season on schedule.
If games are Canceled look to see China Move on Taiwan sooner rather than later.
If games are Canceled look to see China Move on Taiwan sooner rather than later.
According to an article linked to the above one, the NHL didn’t do “the right thing” for altruistic reasons. They only pulled out because their schedule is already screwed up.
BS. Keep the politics out of sports.
And if you are concerned about a nation's behavior, what better way to get in their face than hundreds of thousands of people from the free world interacting with their citizens.
Not to mention the harm this does to the athletes. Stupid. So idiotic.
A military decision is not going to rest on the emotion of being snubbed.
They’re going to move on Taiwan anyway sooner or later......and this regardless of what the US thinks. They know Biden’s administration has given them the best opportunity to do so and certainly before his term is out.
“ban imports from Xinjiang region to the U.S, unless they can prove it wasn’t made with slave labor.”
And we know for sure that China never would lie about such a thing. /s
Right.
The NHL isn’t protesting Chinese abuse of minorities. Rapidly spreading Omicron and an already screwed up season is the reason.
I believe you’re correct.
I think the NHL and NHLPA both agreed that using the Olympics break to hold the covid postponed games was best.
Best for the NHL who didn’t want their players to endanger themselves and best for the NHLPA lower paid players who wouldn’t be paid for games that got canceled.
I didn’t have anything to do with politics.
‘Rapidly spreading Omicron and an already screwed up season is the reason.’
it isn’t any virus that screwed up the season; the league did it to themselves, by adopting trendy rules that perfectly healthy players had to sit out if a flawed test turned up positive...
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