{"id":33122,"date":"2022-01-20T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=33122"},"modified":"2022-01-20T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T21:40:47","slug":"us-lawmakers-demand-ioc-reaffirm-athletes-free-speech-rights-during-beijing-winter-olympicsunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=33122","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers demand IOC reaffirm athletes\u2019 free-speech rights during Beijing Winter OlympicsUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS lawmakers have called on the International Olympic Committee to reaffirm the free-speech rights of athletes in the Winter Games, after a Beijing official warned that speech that violated Chinese regulations would be punished.\u201cThe International Olympic Committee \u2013 and its president Thomas Bach \u2013 must immediately clarify that free speech by athletes is absolutely guaranteed at the Olympics,\u201d a bipartisan group of eight congressional representatives wrote on Thursday.On Wednesday, Yang Shu, the\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/article\/3164161\/us-lawmakers-demand-ioc-reaffirm-athletes-free-speech-rights-during?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostUS lawmakers have called on the International Olympic Committee to reaffirm the free-speech rights of athletes in the Winter Games, after&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":33123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}