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Oh please. That's like blaming the help for the antics of the corrupt thug host and his fat-cat dinner guests because after all, if they were servants with principles, they'd go and work in someone else's house. If you want to hold servants (or vastly underpaid athletes) responsible for the politics around the venues where they're practically forced to compete, that's your lookout, but I think that's pretty unfair.

EDIT: To be fair, I would also suspect that a great many journos are not exactly fat-cat dinner guests, either, and no doubt many are there because their bosses told them they had to, and they have about as much practical choice in the matter as the athletes do.