{"id":73421,"date":"2024-07-08T00:24:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=73421"},"modified":"2024-07-08T00:24:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T04:24:03","slug":"the-treatment-of-environmental-activists-at-olympic-games-contradicts-iocs-olympism-ideals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/the-treatment-of-environmental-activists-at-olympic-games-contradicts-iocs-olympism-ideals\/","title":{"rendered":"The treatment of environmental activists at Olympic Games contradicts IOC\u2019s Olympism ideals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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With the Paris Olympics fast approaching under the shadow of the climate crisis, activists and advocates continue to raise questions about the International Olympic Committee\u2019s (IOC) commitment to one of three\u00a0pillars of the Olympic Agenda<\/a>: sustainability.<\/p>\n

And for good reason. Despite optimistic rhetoric from the IOC and host committees, environmental exploitation by host nations, and the suppression of opposition to such exploitation, have remained a troubling feature of the Olympic Games throughout the 21st century.<\/p>\n

If the IOC\u2019s\u00a0philosophy of Olympism<\/a>\u00a0truly embraces the \u201charmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity,\u201d why are environmental issues surrounding the Games consistently overlooked?<\/p>\n

Olympism only adds value to society when it functions as a moral and ethical compass, rather than a simple public relations tool. Yet, there is strong evidence of the latter.<\/p>\n

Conflicting approaches<\/strong><\/h4>\n

It is clear that the IOC and green activists have conflicting approaches to environmental stewardship. The IOC merely pays lip service to such concerns, while the latter actually fights to prevent the\u00a0environmental destruction caused by the very hosting of the Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While the Olympics tend to lean on environmental rhetoric, including declarations from hopeful bid committees and organizers that their event will be the \u201cgreenest<\/a>\u201d or \u201cmost sustainable<\/a>,\u201d activists have long pointed to the environmental harms already present in host cities prior to the Games, which are often worsened by Olympic venue construction.<\/p>\n

Examples include\u00a0toxic waste being dumped in Homebush Bay ahead of the Sydney Games<\/a>,\u00a0polluted waters in Guanabara Bay<\/a>\u00a0where the 2016 Summer Games in Rio de Janeiro held sailing events, and\u00a0construction waste contaminating the Mzymta River<\/a>\u00a0during venue development for the 2014 Sochi Games.<\/p>\n

Activists have also pointed to the human costs of environmental destruction associated with the Olympic Games. Ahead of the Rio Games, for example, the gentrification of Vila Aut\u00f3dromo, a favela located on the edge of Olympic Park, resulted in the\u00a0forced displacement of residents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Olympic torch also passed through lands of the Guarani and Terena tribes who\u00a0suffered land theft, dispossession and violence from farmers and loggers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suppressing activist voices<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Environmental advocates\u2019 concerns are often dismissed as distractions from the Olympic spectacle. Activists are\u00a0characterized as \u201ckilljoys\u201d who detract from the \u201cfeel good\u201d emotions<\/a>\u00a0associated with hosting the Olympics or hinder bid committees\u2019 efforts.<\/p>\n

Even more concerning, host cities and nations suppress the voices of environmental advocates by characterizing them as security threats, mobilizing private and public surveillance and security entities to watch, identify, suppress and detain.<\/p>\n

In 2013, environmental protesters were tear gassed and water cannoned by police after protesting the plans of the Istanbul Olympic bidding committee to develop Gezi Park, an important and rare green space. The mayor suggested the protests would make hosting the 2020 Olympics \u201cnothing but a dream<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not all hosts, or would-be hosts, resort to such measures. In the past, hosts have also\u00a0created protest zones<\/a>\u00a0for environmental activists to demonstrate and express their dissent against the Games, IOC or host governments.<\/p>\n

Hosts, however, tend to place these zones out of sight, with protest groups requiring a permit to even gain access. In 2008,\u00a0such zones were utilized to detain protesters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Surveillance, espionage and policing<\/strong><\/h4>\n

There have also been several instances where Olympic bid and host cities have used surveillance, espionage and policing to muzzle environmental activists.<\/p>\n

Environmentalist Hu Jia was\u00a0arrested and sentenced to 3.5 years in prison<\/a>\u00a0for \u201cinciting subversion of state power\u201d ahead of the 2008 Summer Games in Beijing.\u00a0Human Rights Watch<\/a>\u00a0accused the Chinese government of targeting other activists for harassment, intimidation and detainment.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the Sochi Games in 2014, authorities banned activists from entering the city,\u00a0including its own residents<\/a>. Those conducting research on environmental issues related to the Olympics were threatened with government interference and having their offices shut down.<\/p>\n

Yevgeny Vitishko, an environmental activist and outspoken critic of the Sochi Games\u2019 environmental record,\u00a0was arrested and sentenced to three years in a penal colony<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suppression in the West<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Much of the media coverage of this issue has constructed it as a problem contained within the Global South, or within nations like China and Russia who are political opponents of the West. However, this framing is misleading, as examples also exist in countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n

A private intelligence firm, Stratfor, was used by Coca-Cola and Dow Chemical to\u00a0monitor activists ahead of the Vancouver 2010 Games<\/a>. Additionally, the\u00a0Project Civil City initiative<\/a>\u00a0launched by Vancouver in preparation of the Games was meant to regulate and reduce \u201cstreet disorder.\u201d<\/p>\n

In reality, this meant targeting the city\u2019s homeless and other \u201cundesirables\u201d to cleanse its public image as a \u201cglobal\u201d Olympic city. And in London, construction companies Robert McAlpine Ltd and Balfour Beatty actively blacklisted \u201cproblematic\u201d union workers and activists from working on several projects, including\u00a0Olympic venues for the 2012 Summer Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The IOC, as the \u201csupreme authority<\/a>\u201d over the Olympic Movement, is the only entity capable of curtailing such abuses. But it hasn\u2019t and its inaction further legitimizes and exacerbates city and state suppression of environmental activism.<\/p>\n

Holding the IOC to account<\/strong><\/h4>\n

As we look ahead to the upcoming Parisian Games, the French capital is not without environmental and social controversies.<\/p>\n

As of June 18, the E. coli level of the river Seine, home to open water swimming and the aquatic portion of the triathlon,\u00a0was 10 times above the acceptable level<\/a>.\u00a0Parisians have threatened to defecate in the waterway<\/a>\u00a0to protest the amount of spending the city has poured into prepping the river for the Games, rather than addressing more pressing social issues.<\/p>\n

At the same time,\u00a0Paris police are targeting the city\u2019s most vulnerable<\/a>\u00a0in the lead up to the Olympics by removing homeless encampments, harassing sex workers and deporting migrants as\u00a0part of a \u201csocial cleansing\u201d program<\/a>, which remains a hallmark tactic of Olympic host cities.<\/p>\n

The Paris Olympics presents an excellent opportunity for journalists and news media outlets to illuminate the voices of environmental advocates, hold the IOC and French authorities to account in their engagement with activists, and maintain a healthy skepticism of the promised \u201cgreen\u201d legacies of the Paris Games.<\/p>\n

Author Bios:<\/strong> Adam Ali is Assistant Professor, School of Kinesiology at Western University, Jay Johnson is Professor, Faculty of Kinesiology and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba and MacIntosh Ross is Assistant Professor, Kinesiology also at Western University<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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