Springboard diplomacy
Elaine K Howley investigates how a small group of American swimmers and divers helped open China to westerners
As much as purists like to say that sports should play out beyond the reach of petty politics, it simply can’t. As with any human endeavor, politics always manages to find its way into proceedings.
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