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The Anchorage Daily News headlined an Associated Press article Second day of NBA playoff games halted after player walkout in protest of social injustice. [61] Sporting News had Adam Silver responds to player boycott: 'I wholeheartedly support NBA and WNBA players. [62] Mother Jones had NBA Players Are Staging a Wildcat Strike. [63]
This led to protests and a threatened boycott by other countries including the US, but these came to naught after the IOC acquiesced to the Canadian demand which, in turn, led Taiwan to boycott the Games. The People's Republic of China also continued its boycott over the failure of the IOC to recognize its team as the sole representative of China.
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List of non-attendance of government officials or diplomatic boycotts of the Olympic Games [ edit ] The following is the list of countries that did not send official delegations to the Games, but permitted their athletes to participate.
The diplomatic boycott would bar all US government officials from attending the games in an official capacity. The White House cited China's mistreatment of the Uyghur people as the reason for the boycott. The White House said it stopped short of a full boycott, because "it would not be fair to punish athletes who have trained for years". [1]
The Coca-Cola boycott began gaining traction after rumors emerged that, not only had it fired Latino employees from a Texas bottling plant, but it was reporting them to immigration officers ...
Most organized consumer boycotts today are focused on long-term change of buying habits, and so fit into part of a larger political program, with many techniques that require a longer structural commitment, e.g. reform to commodity markets, or government commitment to moral purchasing, e.g. the longstanding boycott of South African businesses ...
Various concerns and controversies have arisen in relation to the 2024 Summer Olympics, held in Paris, including security, [1] human rights issues, Israel's participation amid the Gaza war, and allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.