Olympic medals in cowardice -- the IOC, Team Biden and corporate America

Arkansas Republican reveals his concerns over U.S. athletes competing in the Olympics in China on 'The Story.'

Starting this week, China’s genocidal prison state will host the 2022 Winter Olympics. But it didn’t have to be this way – the Games could easily have been delayed or moved. 

Instead, the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the Biden administration, and hypocritical executives gave the Chinese Communists what they wanted: the honor of hosting the games and the chance to spread their propaganda across billions of television screens.

The world’s greatest athletes will now parade through a stadium that is a mere five-hour train ride away from the Wuhan lab, the likely origin of the coronavirus. America’s youth will compete for medals before Communist Party officials responsible for a horrific genocide of ethnic minorities in Xinjiang. Athletes will be watched, followed, and surveilled every waking hour of their stay in the most repressive police state in the world.  

TUNE OUT THE WINTER OLYMPICS, DON'T REWARD COMMUNIST CHINA'S SCHEME

The International Olympic Committee never should have awarded the 2022 Winter Olympic Games to China. The country’s repressive behavior was well known when the Games were awarded in 2015. 

In 2020, the IOC should have moved the games after the Chinese Communist Party covered up its responsibility for the coronavirus, which has now killed millions worldwide. And if that wasn’t enough, the IOC should have stripped China of hosting responsibilities when governments around the globe acknowledged that China was committing genocide against the Uyghurs and had thrown more than one million of its own people in concentration camps.

Relocating the 2022 Olympics was eminently possible both in