Big games: Behind the Olympics

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Arena Magazine 8

Shane Moloney

Dec 1993

Abstract:

The decision to award the 2000 Olympics to Sydney rather than Beijing was loudly trumpeted in the local media as being attributable to the poor view taken by the International Olympic Committee of China’s human rights record. Indeed throughout the whole protracted bid process the significance of human rights in the IOC decision-making process was an unquestioned assumption.

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