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'''Sportswashing''' is a pejorative term used mostly by [[liberal]]s to criticize a government that spends lavishly on sports stars supposedly to gain undeserved credibility in public opinion.  The term is used most often against [[Saudi Arabia]] as it paid enormous sums for talent in [[golf]] ([[LIV]] tour) and then in [[soccer]] ([[Cristiano Ronaldo]]).<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jan/02/liv-golf-risks-becoming-an-irrelevance-in-growing-saudi-sportswashing-portfolio</ref>

'''Sportswashing''' is a pejorative term used mostly by [[liberal]]s to criticize a government that spends lavishly on sports stars supposedly to gain undeserved credibility in public opinion.  The term is used most often against [[Saudi Arabia]] as it paid enormous sums for talent in [[golf]] ([[LIV]] tour) and then in [[soccer]] ([[Cristiano Ronaldo]]).<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2023/jan/02/liv-golf-risks-becoming-an-irrelevance-in-growing-saudi-sportswashing-portfolio</ref>

A [[double standard]] is in the [[Leftist]]s' use of this term, because they simultaneously demand a [[boycott]] by the [[PGA Tour]] of [[Trump]]-owned golf courses.

A [[double standard]] is in the [[Leftist]]s' use of this term, because they simultaneously demand for their own political reasons an unfair [[boycott]] by the [[PGA Tour]] of [[Trump]]-owned golf courses.

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