[Alberta's Child]

If anyone (Djokovic, for example) was acting on principle, he would have stayed home and publicly explained why he was refusing to participate in a tennis tournament in a country with a totalitarian, oppressive government.

Of course, that wouldn't fly and they'd be rightly exposed as hypocrites. These athletes make fortunes playing in countries like China and radical Islamic kingdoms in the Middle East.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

If anyone (Djokovic, for example) was acting on principle, he would have stayed home and publicly explained why he was refusing to participate in a tennis tournament in a country with a totalitarian, oppressive government.

Yes, but that was not the issue under consideration, and you're making my point for me. The issue was whether anyone should simply shrug his shoulders and dismiss the evil being done on the basis of the fact that it's "their country, their rules." Obviously the answer is no.