Sports and geopolitical tensions nearly collided last month, when the world’s attention turned to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics. But once the games got underway, concerns about their host country — including Russia’s frosty relations with the West and its lack of regard for LGBT rights — were largely overshadowed by the Olympics’ orgy of pomp, circumstance and athletic accomplishment.
Now there’s a very different — and much more delicate — confluence of sports and politics in the very same place. The 2014 Paralympic Games begin this Friday in Sochi, a week after Vladimir Putin sent troops into the independent Crimea. Many have decried the move as blatantly violating international law. Read more…
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