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React to some things that could, we could expect to see happen at the olympics. for example -- a gay athlete kisses his partner, and, and publicly, after winning or not winning or any circumstance like that. would the ioc kid thconsider th political act? >> i doubt it. percentages of people are gay, of populations, they have been gay. we had athletes compete across time. it is not a matter of concern for the ioc. we believe sports belongs to all people. the games there can be no discrimination during the games or part of the games. we are absolutely owe pose e ll that. the problem men are look...

>> and this is continuing, you know -- i would say, i would add. to john mccain's voice in saying that this -- this law actually incites hatred. and incites violence. we have seen that throughout russia. and through out eastern europe where there are other nations like lithuania that had the same type of anti-lgbt propaganda law since 2008. so they're using their cultural nationalism as the basis for discrimination. and the one thing that i think we have to look out for is how long is their shopping list. it doesn't. may start with lgbt people. but it doesn't stop with them. so this is a real ...

Diversity and inclusion. we expect a company that spent $2 billion in russia, major sponsor of the olympics, 100,000 employees in russia to use the opportunity to not only educate people that they work with, but to educate the world on, inclusion. what you do in atlanta you should be supporting in russia. let me just add that -- that i appreciate anita's voice on -- you know, the basic core val use the olympics which is the sell -- celebration of diversity. thomas bach, elected president on a theme of unity and diversity must have that, message must be inclusive of everyone. i think you have a...

Anita said to educate. i would take it a step further. i think we need to be supporting a pride house. we have these wonderful cultural houses that are sometimes national. some? times regional, sometimes, cultural. and the russian government has banned what we had for previous olympics. they banned a pride house. let's move that into the olympic village. do a pride house. show that the olympics is inclusive of everyone. let's make sure that we get these sponsors to be doing the educational work, lawrence, as you just said. >> listen, the sponsors. >> we can't waste that. >> the sponsors are th...

For example -- a gay athlete kisses his partner, and, and publicly, after winning or not winning or any circumstance like that. would the ioc consider that a political act? >> i doubt it. percentages of people are gay, of populations, they have been gay. we had athletes compete across time. it is not a matter of concern for the ioc. we believe sports belongs to all people. the games there can be no discrimination during the games or part of the games. we are absolutely opposed to that. the problem men are looking at as we look at the game. i for one don't expect the russian authorities to enfo...