International Olympic Committee

February 28, 2026 | Ivana Stradner |

Russia Should End It’s War To Attend the Next Olympics

While the Milano Olympic Games have now reached their end, Putin is celebrating the acquisition of countless new victims in his international influence campaigns. The Kremlin has taken advantage of the...

May 15, 2025 | RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery |

Deterrence Amid Rising Tensions

Preventing CCP Aggression on Taiwan

July 30, 2024 | |

Israeli Delegation Faces Threats and Abuse at Paris Olympics

French authorities opened an investigation into spectators who carried a banner declaring “Genocide Olympics,” chanted “Heil Hitler,” performed Nazi salutes, and otherwise...

July 26, 2024 | |

Iran Orchestrating Online Campaign of Threats Against Israeli Olympic Athletes

Latest Developments The Israel National Cyber Directorate announced on July 25 that Iran was behind an online intimidation campaign targeting Israeli athletes competing in the Paris Olympics. Hackers...

June 29, 2024 | David May, Noy Barel

The Palestinian War on Israel’s Olympic Team

The violent hostility of Jibril Rajoub to Israel goes back more than half a century.

April 1, 2023 | David May |

Indonesia scores own goal with hostility to Israel

Attempting to ban Israeli athletes proved to be a costly own goal for Indonesia. On Wednesday, FIFA stripped Indonesia of hosting duties for the under-20 soccer World Cup due to Jakarta’s inability...

February 17, 2023 | Ivana Stradner |

The US should insist that Russian and Belarusian athletes be banned from the 2024 Olympics

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) needs to get off the sidelines on the question of whether Russian athletes will participate in the 2024 Summer Games in Paris. Instead, it appears the...

April 12, 2022 | Annie Fixler, Graham Kennis

Justice Department Disrupts Russian Malware With Help from Private Sector

The Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last Wednesday it had detected and preemptively disabled Russian-installed malware on thousands of network devices in the United States and around the world. The...

April 5, 2022 | Zane Zovak |

Why the IOC Doesn’t Deserve Gold for Its Olympics Campaign

While more than 1 million Uyghurs and other minorities suffer mass detention, forced labor and torture in Xinjiang in western China, many of the world’s greatest athletes competed in Beijing at the...

February 23, 2022 | Clifford D. May |

Putin’s winter war

A strategy to contain him should have been implemented years ago

February 17, 2022 | Jonathan Schanzer, Richard Goldberg, RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery

Taiwan 194

Emulating the Palestinians to Advocate Internationally for Taiwan and to Counter China

February 15, 2022 | Craig Singleton |

Why China’s Threat to Punish Outspoken Olympians Rings Hollow

It would create a diplomatic crisis, which should be the last thing the Xi regime wants.

January 4, 2022 | Zane Zovak |

Don’t Let China Weaponize the 2022 Winter Olympics

While a full boycott would unfairly punish American athletes, there are other measures Washington should take.

September 9, 2021 | David May, Michael Levinson

Give Sports Bigotry No Sanction

Hamid Sajjadi, Iran’s recently appointed minister of sports, warned Iranian athletes in August not to compete against counterparts from the “child-killing and occupying regime of Israel.” With the...

September 8, 2021 | Sardar Pashaei, Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

Why The Iranian Regime’s Murder Of A Champion Wrestler Matters

This Sunday, September 12, will mark one year since Iran’s clerical regime executed the champion Greco-Roman wrestler Navid Afkari for expressing opposition to the religious dictatorship in Iran. His...

August 4, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iranian athletes at Tokyo Olympics remember murdered wrestler Navid Afkari

A defector from the Islamic Republic displayed a picture of Afkari attached to a flag: 'We’ll always commemorate him'

March 9, 2021 | David May, Benjamin Weinthal

Olympics Needs to Uphold Ban on Iran’s Discrimination

The CAS ruling sends the wrong message to Tehran. The principles of the Olympic Charter and the lives of Iranian athletes ought to compel more than this.

March 6, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal, Alireza Nader

Olympic sponsors must withdraw support if Iran is not banned

Excerpt In late January, the Islamic Republic executed a second young Iranian wrestler as part of its campaign against dissent. Mehdi Ali Husseini, who was just 29 years old, was killed only four months...

February 5, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran facing calls to be kicked out of Olympics after execution of boxer

The Islamic Republic of Iran imposed yet another extrajudicial death penalty on a champion athlete last week, sparking renewed calls from sports advocacy organizations for the regime to be banned from...

January 10, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran to execute 2nd wrestler, sparking outrage from US State Department

Execution of decorated wrestler Mehdi Ali Hosseini is imminent