Opinion Cameron Smith the latest sporting star being held to a higher morality
The dilemma of Australia’s latest golfing champion Cameron Smith highlights the hypocrisy which surrounds our sporting heroes.The warm afterglow of Smith’s nerveless British Open victory and the adulation which followed is being clouded by questions about whether he will take the biggest payday of his life to compete in the Saudi-backed LIV rebel golf tour.
This is the same Saudi Arabia that is talked about in glowing terms on the Australian Government’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade website.“Australia and Saudi Arabia’s friendly relationship is underpinned by commercial ties and shared membership in the G20,” the section under Bilateral Relations begins.
The tournament is part of the Ladies European Tour. The great irony, of course, is that almost no women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to play golf, or do much else, at least without a male guardian’s permission. Saudis pour millions into racing in Australia and around the world and spent half a billion dollars buying EPL club Newcastle United.
China hosted the 2008 Olympics, Winter Olympics this year, and is responsible for locking up more than one million Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities, according to a joint statement from 47 countries delivered to the United Nations.
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