Sochi 2014 Olympics: Accommodation and Resistance
Journal: Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks
Year: 2016

In 2007, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that it had awarded the 2014 Winter Olympics to Sochi, critics denounced the organization that defines itself as the ‘moral authority for world sport’ for rewarding a country guilty of widespread human rights violations. Developments in the next six years, culminating in Russia’s 2013 anti-gay laws—broadly worded legislation banning the distribution of ‘gay propaganda’ to minors—demonstrated that critics’ concerns were well justif