They certainly know how to appease the current US administration
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Fuck Olympics. Fuck World Cup. Fuck Superbowl.
You like sports? Go do some sport. Don't pay corrupt corporation to watch it.
They sell merch from all the games, and this one doesn't feature any Nazi imagery. Unless people are specifically using it to promote Naziism, meh.
I love how the PR guy comes clapping back with how Jesse Owens competed in the 1936 Olympics. Then put him on a damn shirt! Not a super crypto-fascist looking poster.
The IOC being friendly towards fascists is not news. Even Heraskevych's ban in the Winter Olympics is a symptom of this.
As a general rule, all large international sports organizations are run by coalitions of far-right leaders and particularly amoral neoliberals.
Yes, the IOC, along with FIFA and other major organised crime syndicates with sports as a cover story, is fine with authoritarianism, often even openly supportive.
The Olympics as we know them were born in Berlin.
Before 1936, they were disorganized and not particularly popular.
The Nazis saw the propaganda value in the spectacle, so they created the modern Olympics.
Should everything relating to nazi-era Germany be banned?
Merch made with Nazi symbology on it? Yes, it should.
This isn't a textbook or educational work - it's promotional merchandise made purely for profit.
This doesn't have any Nazi symbology on it.
The Nazi Reichsadler is a Nazi symbol, it's a distinct design.
The round thing under the eagle is a Nazi symbol. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_cross?wprov=sfla1
It's also an ancient symbol for the sun, but so is the swastika.
EDIT: It looks like the whole image is the Nazi designed poster for the Olympics. Like I said in my other comment, they could have just used an image of Jesse Owens for that particular Olympics. Would have been a better message.
It's the statue on top of the Brandenburg gate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_Gate It was built long before the nazis. Doesn't change the fact that it's a nazi propaganda poster though.
It's an iron cross, added in 1815. It predates Naziism by over a hundred years. https://www.history.com/articles/brandenburg-gate-a-brief-history
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