Steve Barrett
Feb 20, 2022

The Olympics: It's complicated

Winter Olympics athletes in Beijing are striving to preserve the idealistic and purposeful values of the Games and protect “chivalry, honour and glory” despite the harsh realities of the modern world.

Kamila Valieva's Beijing experience summed up the complicated nature of the Olympic ideal (Photo: Getty Images.)

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