Yes, 2022 was a year when sports mostly got it backward, when its exhilaration and beauty...
Clockwise from left: Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry, 30, holds the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award after the Golden State Warriors defeated the Boston Celtics 103 to 90 in Game 6 to win the NBA Finals at TD Garden in Boston, Mass., on Thursday, June 16, 2022. Kamila Valieva, of the Russian Olympic Committee, reacts after the women's free skate program during the figure skating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics, Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, in Beijing.
The year of the wash started with the Winter Olympics in Beijing. China wanted to dazzle while silencing its critics. Security threats forced many attendees, including journalists, to resort to burner phones and laptops.
That was just the first bucket of sudsy sportswashing. In the spring, several inordinately wealthy golfers quit the PGA so they could get even richer in Saudi-backed LIV golf. Phil Mickelson was among them, despite saying that the Saudis were “scary m—f— ers to get involved with” who had killed Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi and “have a horrible record on human rights.” Still, money speaks louder than morals, and in LIV, everyone gets paid.
Did we all watch? Of course we did. But even the victors couldn’t come out clean in the wash: Lionel Messi has signed a lucrative contract to be a face of Saudi Arabian tourism as it pushes for a 2030 World Cup bid .Plenty else fell under the label of “bad” in sports:
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