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With Olympics 2022 and World Cup, will sportwashing backfire? - Los Angeles Times

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LA Times Today, Op-Ed: Could this be the year ‘sportwashing’ backfires?

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LA Times Today, Op-Ed: Could this be the year ‘sportwashing’ backfires?

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Jan. 27, 2022 12:08 PM PT

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This year’s sports calendar is bookended by two of the biggest global event: the Beijing winter Olympics in February and the men’s World Cup in Qatar starting in November.

Andres Martinez is a journalism professor at Arizona State University and in a guest L.A. Times op-ed, he writes these two anti-democratic host nations are using sports to help smooth their tarnished reputations.

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