That's the government's right, though it's also the athletes right to collectively refuse to adhere. If I were them I would arrange with as many of the athletes as possible to criticize the government about a week before the Olympics. Then the government could decide between not fielding an Olympic team or caving.

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JMS gets another English lesson:

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there is no "mostly unique;" thats like saying "sometimes always," its an oxymoron - its either one or the other.

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By the mid-19th century unique had developed a wider meaning, “not typical, unusual,” and it is in this wider sense that it is compared. The comparison of so-called absolutes in senses that are not absolute is standard in all varieties of speech and writing.