Peng Shuai backlash leaves IOC facing familiar criticism over human rights

 The IOC isn't concerned with human rights or the health and welfare of a hosting nations citizens.  When the Summer Olympics were awarded to Beijing for 2008 the IOC assured the world that the CCP would adhere to human rights norms they didn't.  Any citizen that complained was jailed, whole neighbours were destroyed and business were forced to shut in the name of improving the IOC profits.  The Rio and Sochi Olympics were just corruption run a muck.  And then, came the pandemic of 2020 and postponement of the Tokyo Olympics.   As the IOC's only interest is the continuation of its profit streams the Japanese government at the height of that nations coronavirus epidemic and with the complete lack of support from the citizens couldn't cancel the games.  As the signed contract only allowed the IOC to do that.  With revenue on the line the IOC was never going cancel the games.    

With the Beijing Winter Games in peril the IOC decided that playing the useful propaganda idiot for the Chinese government was the best way of the impending disaster they found themselves in. 

Analysis: Olympic committee is accused of engaging in a ‘publicity stunt’ by taking part in video call

As human rights organisations and the world’s media questioned the whereabouts of the Chinese tennis player Peng Shuai, the International Olympic Committee opted for a “quiet diplomacy” approach, arguing that was the most effective way to deal with such a case.

“Experience shows that quiet diplomacy offers the best opportunity to find a solution for questions of such nature. This explains why the IOC will not comment any further at this stage,” the Lausanne-based organisation said in an emailed statement on Thursday about the case of Peng, who disappeared from public view after she made an accusation of sexual assault against a former senior Chinese official.

Yet the IOC’s approach to the Peng saga, which resulted in a half-hour-long video call between its president, Thomas Bach, and the player on Sunday, appeared to have failed to ease concerns. Instead, the committee was accused by rights activists of engaging in a “publicity stunt” for Beijing.