Reporters Without Borders criticizes the decision to hold the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.

I agree that it is not good to boost China and other tyrannical countries with Olympic games. The ironic thing is that the Olympic Games impose tyranny, and the places they do the least harm are in countries that are already tyrannical, such as China. The sort of repression that games impose already pervades China. The debt they leave behind won't make much as difference there.

Until the games are reformed, we must protect still-somewhat-free cities from them.

Meanwhile, Beijing already has the large facilities needed. It is more efficient to reuse them than build new ones somewhere else.