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Olympics: Every Future Host Country MUST Protect LGBT
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In the aftermath of the controversy over having the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in a country, Russia, with anti-gay laws that mocked the Olympic Charter’s language about non-discrimination, the IOC has changed its host city contract to include the same language.
That means future host cities, beginning with the host chosen next year for the 2022 Winter Olympics, will sign a legal document saying they will follow Fundamental Principle 6 of the Olympic Charter, which reads:
"Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement."
The three 2022 candidate cities, Oslo, Beijing and Almaty, Kazakhstan – and the IOC members in those countries – were told about the changes in a Sept. 16 letter signed by Christophe Dubi, the IOC Olympic Games Executive Director, and Howard Stupp, the IOC Director of Legal Affairs.
"(This) sends a clear message to future host cities that human rights violations, including those against lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, will not be tolerated," said Andre Banks, co-founder and executive director of All Out, one of the groups that led the outcry against Russia’s anti-gay legislation.
The trick now will be to see what kind of hammer the IOC can wield should a country pass discriminatory laws, as Russia did, after one of its cities has been chosen as an Olympic host. Enforcing the contract with the threat of losing the Olympics becomes nearly impossible in the final three years before the Games in question.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports...924-story.html
- So, in hindsight, it was too late to change the location of Sochi since Russia introduced the laws in 2013, only a year before showtime.
- Brazil is hosting 2016 and they already have anti-discrimination laws so they're in the clear, but South Korea is hosting the 2018 Winter Olympics and while homosexuality is legal there, there are no anti-discrimination laws yet.
- Of the 2022 bids, only Norway has these laws while China doesn't and Kazakhstan proposed a propaganda law like Russia - they'd better scrap it soon
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They need to make a severe punishment for anyone who breaks that rule tbh because I'm not here for them letting someone slide again like they did with Russia. 
