The term 'sports washing' is rather new,
it was first coined less than ten years ago
by Amnesty International to describe
the repression that was covered up
by the 2015 European Games
put on in Baku in Azerbaijan,
a former Soviet Socialist Republic.
If there had been an award
for levels of political repression
then as host country
Azerbaijan would have won that too,
though they would have to fight
The Russian Empire for that medal.
If the dead could be resurrected
then they would have got Adolph Hitler,
the earliest known sports washer, to make the presentation.
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