{"id":1080640,"date":"2021-12-03T13:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080640"},"modified":"2021-12-03T13:14:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T18:14:33","slug":"watch-bob-costas-slams-olympic-committee-for-aiding-and-abetting-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-bob-costas-slams-olympic-committee-for-aiding-and-abetting-china\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Bob Costas Slams Olympic Committee for \u2018Aiding and Abetting\u2019 China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-bob-costas-slams-olympic-committee-for-aiding-and-abetting-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1080640&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-603134558_736x514.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Longtime Olympic Games sportscaster Bob Costas said the International Olympic Committee is &#8220;in bed with China&#8221; after the organization took the regime&#8217;s side on the disappearance of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was apparent to many of us [during the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games] that the IOC was aiding and abetting a problematic regime,&#8221; Costa said in a CNN interview on Thursday. &#8220;It&#8217;s very troubling, their affinity for authoritarian regimes, so it&#8217;s pretty clear that in the video interview with Peng \u2026 they were just giving China cover. It was pretty clear that it was coached, and it was all a setup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peng disappeared from public view last month after she accused a top Chinese Communist Party official of sexually assaulting her. While the Women&#8217;s Tennis Association suspended all tournaments in China over the situation, the IOC downplayed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/ioc\/news\/ioc-statement-on-the-situation-of-peng-shuai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">saying<\/a> Peng appeared &#8220;safe and well&#8221; in a video call.<\/p>\n<p>Costas also pointed to organizations including the NBA and Nike, as well as individual athletes, that have turned a blind eye to China&#8217;s human rights abuses while being outspoken in their criticism of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Some of those people are very outspoken \u2026 and sometimes offer sweeping condemnations of their own admittedly imperfect country,&#8221; Costas said. &#8220;But when it comes to China, perhaps the world&#8217;s leading human rights abuser given its size and its wherewithal, they&#8217;re mum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NBA star LeBron James, who has strong business ties to China, has defended China against criticism while speaking out on social justice issues in the United States. In 2019, James <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/issues\/lebron-james-houston-rockets-gm-was-not-educated-on-hong-kong\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">slammed<\/a> then-general manager of the Houston Rockets Daryl Morey for endorsing the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong, saying Morey was &#8220;not thinking about others and \u2026 only thinking about [himself].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Costas covered the Olympics for NBC Sports from 1988 to 2016. He stepped down from his role as Olympic primetime host in 2017 and has since left NBC.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers have increasingly called for a boycott of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, which are set to begin in February, in light of Peng&#8217;s disappearance and China&#8217;s oppression of the Uyghur population in Xinjiang.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/cotton-thrashes-china-biden-admin-in-call-for-complete-and-total-olympics-boycott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> last month a boycott is the &#8220;absolute bare minimum that any civilized nation would do for these genocide Olympics&#8221; considering China&#8217;s &#8220;crimes against the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longtime Olympic Games sportscaster Bob Costas said the International Olympic Committee is &#8220;in bed with China&#8221; after the organization took the regime&#8217;s side on the disappearance of Chinese tennis star &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1080640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1080640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}