They banned Belarus (what bad did they do?) and Russia (always bad, since cold war) from participating, but let the murderous regime of Israel take part? I can't do different but call this years Olympics "Games of Shame".
What a clown world.
How funny that the 'most evil man who ever lived' revived the Olympics, restarted the Olympic fire tradition, and let the whole world come to celebrate the Games of Friendship and Peace. Even then, the US was trying hard to convince everyone to boycott the games.
And even more funny, that the black gold medalist Owens rode in the front on the bus︀ in Germany and was celebrated by the German people when he got the gold medal,︁ things that he couldn't experience at 'home' in the US. The man who actually snubbed Owens was President Franklin D Roosevelt. After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, only the white athletes︂ were invited to see and meet Roosevelt. Owens – the most successful athlete at the︃ games – bemoaned that he "wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with︄ the President".