"I write in the earnest hope that all those with a love of sport and the Olympic spirit will consider the stain on the Five Rings that occurred when the 1936 Berlin Olympics proceeded under the exultant aegis of a tyrant who had passed into law- two years earlier- an act which singled out for special persecution a minority whose only crime was the accident of their birth. … An absolute ban on the Russian Winter Olympics of 2014 on Sochi is simply essential. … At all costs Putin cannot be seen to have the approval of the civilised world."
An Open Letter to David Cameron and the IOC
Dear Prime Minister- M Rogge- Lord Coe and Members of the International Olympic Committee- I write in…
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