you know so i mean if it's the dominic sandbrook or are you know it's the dominant samberg who is a leading british historian and who is a historian who protect concentrates on the post second world war in britain and in europe but just going back to the point that these games of being particularly political paralysis saw you see if you like before the game started i wouldn't have said that was true at all i mean we had don't forget we had huge criticism of moscow in the 1980's olympics and there was similarly there was criticism of los angels leaves that the nineteen eighty four olympics that was in. you know for jock but john you. could say one could easily say that the united states in the soviet union were in a conflict ok they're not in one today. yes well of the nineteen seventy six olympics in montreal there were huge criticisms of of montreal with the amount of money being spent to start with and then beforehand we had a huge issue of black african nations walking out of the games because of the presence of the new zealand t and the new zealand team. there. competing in the games an

or so ago in the british media in the in the mail online there was an article by a gentleman dominic sandbrook and the stupidly title of the article is really quite long and it's quite astounding the gangster's games by endorsing putin's murderous in corrupt regime the olympic movement has allowed itself to be hijacked by evil as it was once was by hitler this is extraordinary i have to disagree with john i have never heard anything even i'm a child of the cold war i never heard that during the cold war when we're looking at olympic games ok we're not looking about conflict or or proxy conflict in the third world we're talking about a sporting event i've never heard the level of or the low level of journalism described in a sporting event i find it astounding. i was just going to say we love to compare things they had learned i think miley cyrus was compared to them recently but. that's pretty much a go to go to simile right there but. yeah i mean i think those things need to be talked about human rights abuses definitely need to be talked about but they they also i feel like there is a double