It's Thursday, February 24, 2022. I'm Albert Moeller and this is the briefing.

A daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

So much going on in the world these days will continue to track and days ahead what is going

on in Ukraine full coverage was offered yesterday.

We need to look at some other big stories even as the

headlines seem to be coming at us so fast and furiously. For one thing we can't

let the Olympics go. The recent Winter Olympics that were concluded with much fanfare and with much

frustration in Beijing. We can't let the issue go, the intersection of tyranny,

autocracy on the one hand, and what is supposed to be the display of

athleticism and international amity on the other side. What we're looking at is

the fact that the Olympics in the beginning and now in the

Olympics period, especially going back to the beginning of that movement,

particularly in the 20th century.

What we have seen is the continual refutation of the Olympic ideal.

What we have continuously seen is corruption

that raises its hand at virtually every single Olympic event and what we are looking at

is the fact that this must be if the Olympics are to mean anything

going into the future this must be a picture that simply doesn't repeat itself

over and over again the picture of a totalitarian government attempting to use the Olympics

for its own political and nationalistic purposes, we can't have again a picture of a 15- old Russian girl involved in a doping scandal

collapsing on the ice and crying and only receiving a cold shoulder from her own

coach. We just can't have this over and over again. But that's exactly what we do have.

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