Swedish tennis protest
Terror in Lahore. Silence in Sweden. Athletes caught in the middle Full Story »
Posted by Beth TuckerReview
Sports is hardly the only arena — think writers and cartoonists — in which authorities have been intimidated by those whose protests are the loudest and whose threats the most virulent. But it is an abandonment of the promise of Munich to treat Israel’s athletes in such singular fashion. In Pakistan, it is the hosts who are rightly being blamed. But in Sweden, the visitors are blamed for bringing this down on themselves.
