{"id":519969,"date":"2022-02-19T11:23:22","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/feb\/19\/openly-british-gus-kenworthy-ioc-criticism-over-human-rights"},"modified":"2022-02-19T11:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-19T11:23:22","slug":"openly-british-kenworthy-signs-off-with-criticism-of-ioc-over-human-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/02\/19\/openly-british-kenworthy-signs-off-with-criticism-of-ioc-over-human-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Openly British\u2019 Kenworthy signs off with criticism of IOC over human rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul><li>Gay skier finishes eighth in the men\u2019s freeski halfpipe final<\/li><li>After revealing message, Kenworthy criticises IOC<\/li><\/ul><p>The British freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, said on Saturday the International Olympic Committee should take a host nation\u2019s stance on human rights issues into consideration when awarding the Games.<\/p><p>Rights groups have long criticised the IOC\u2019s choice of Beijing as 2022 host and several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom, mounted diplomatic boycotts to protest against China\u2019s treatment of its minority Muslim Uyghur population, which the US deems to be genocide. China denies allegations of human rights abuses.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/feb\/19\/openly-british-gus-kenworthy-ioc-criticism-over-human-rights\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2022\/feb\/19\/openly-british-gus-kenworthy-ioc-criticism-over-human-rights\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gay skier finishes eighth in the men\u2019s freeski halfpipe finalAfter revealing message, Kenworthy criticises IOCThe British freestyle skier Gus Kenworthy, an advocate for LGBTQ+ rights, said on Saturday the International Olympic Committee should take a h&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[190,6,2030,31551,41647],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519969"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":520376,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519969\/revisions\/520376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}