10 Feb 2022

Winter Olympics: Athlete rights to speak out under question

From Morning Report, 8:53 am on 10 February 2022

Athletes' rights to speak out at the Beijing Winter Olympics has come to the forefront once again. Germany's luge gold medallist Natalie Geisenberger, who was sharply critical of China before the Games, says she's not going to speak out about China's treatment of ethnic minorities until she's out of the country. Several countries, including the United States and Britain, had announced a diplomatic boycott of the games over China's alleged human rights abuses. Beijing correspondent Patrick Fok who says China has made its warnings clear.