Should Sports and Politics Mix? | The IOC’s Dick Pound | GZERO World

Long-time IOC Dick Pound shares his views on athlete protests & the Tokyo Olympic Games. Subscribe to GZERO on YouTube: http://bit.ly/2TxCVnY A look at the long history of protest at the Games with Dick Pound, the longest-serving member of the International Olympic Committee and a former Olympic athlete himself. With COVID rates rising globally, this year’s Olympics faced some major hurdles. But the pandemic was only part of the picture. The Tokyo Games played out against a backdrop of mounting global tension surrounding gender equality, racism and human rights, leaving many people to examine the place of politics on the playing field and podium. Watch the episode: https://www.gzeromedia.com/gzero-worl... Sign up for GZERO’s free newsletter on global politics, Signal: http://bit.ly/gzerosignal Subscribe to the GZERO podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Like GZERO on Facebook:   / gzeromedia   Follow GZERO on Twitter:   / gzeromedia   Follow GZERO on LinkedIn:   / 18385722   GZERO Media is a multimedia publisher providing news, insights and commentary on the events shaping our world. Our properties include GZERO World with Ian Bremmer, our newsletter Signal, Puppet Regime, the GZERO World Podcast, In 60 Seconds and GZEROMedia.com #GZEROWorld #DickPound #IOC