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14. 👆 This. It was a bad idea when Carter boycotted the Olympics, and it still is today.
Tue Apr 6, 2021, 09:26 PM
Apr 2021

The host country does not suffer in this scenario. No one else will join the US in the boycott, everyone else will go, and the only people who really get screwed over are the athletes. It's not fair to them.

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