{"id":1609462,"date":"2022-03-15T09:35:15","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1609462"},"modified":"2022-03-15T09:35:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:35:15","slug":"russia-invasion-upends-olympic-neutrality-if-it-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=1609462","title":{"rendered":"Russia invasion upends Olympic &#8216;neutrality&#8217; \u2014 if it existed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/russia-invasion-upends-olympic-neutrality-if-it-existed\/20187641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/wwwcache.wralsportsfan.com\/asset\/2022\/03\/15\/20187642\/media_93bb7dacf4b748ea88d8525ac870c10c-DMID1-5u7o69bxj-80x53.jpg\" alt=\"Olympics_and_Politics_02452\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee has always been political, from the sheikhs and royals in its membership to a seat at the United Nations to pushing for peace talks between the Koreas. But Russia&#8217;s invasion of Ukraine three weeks ago exposed its irreconcilable claims of \u201cpolitical neutrality.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/russia-invasion-upends-olympic-neutrality-if-it-existed\/20187641\/\" class=\"colorbox\" id=\"rssmi_more\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wralsportsfan.com\/russia-invasion-upends-olympic-neutrality-if-it-existed\/20187641\/\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Russia invasion upends Olympic &#039;neutrality&#039; \u2014 if it existed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WRAL<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The International Olympic Committee has always been political, from the sheikhs and royals in its membership to a seat at the United Nations to pushing for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1609462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","wpcat-79-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1609462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1609462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1609462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1609462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}