{"id":1860,"date":"2016-01-24T18:29:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T18:29:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1860"},"modified":"2016-01-25T19:02:59","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T19:02:59","slug":"the-silence-of-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1860","title":{"rendered":"The Silence of Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>meydan.tv<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There\u2019s an ongoing collusion between sports and politics. The European Games in Baku accomplished one thing above all \u2013 strengthening the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan. Sport Inside reports on the repercussions of the Games, where organized sport is once again attracting attention for its silence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cSport has become a business. Sport is politics,\u201d says Christoph Str\u00e4sser, the German Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid. \u201cThe main question concerning large sporting events, in my opinion, is the question of money. Who pays the best? That is most easily done in a country where events can be organized without citizens protesting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">See Sport Inside\u2019s documentary with English subtitles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oOAvY4SUIWE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>meydan.tv There\u2019s an ongoing collusion between sports and politics. The European Games in Baku accomplished one thing above all \u2013 strengthening the authoritarian regime in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/?p=1860\" title=\"The Silence of Sport\">[more &gt;&gt;&gt;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azerbaijan","category-azerbaijan-human-rights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1860\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/covcasbulletin.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}