Ko Win Htet Oo attends a training session at the Melbourne Aquatic Centre in Australia on April 29. The Myanmar swimmer said, “For me, it's just one person's dream of going to the Olympics, but in Myanmar, millions of young people have witnessed their dreams and aspirations disappear." (AFP)
Ko Win Htet Oo attends a training session at the Melbourne Aquatic Centre in Australia on April 29. The Myanmar swimmer said, “For me, it's just one person's dream of going to the Olympics, but in Myanmar, millions of young people have witnessed their dreams and aspirations disappear." (AFP)

Swimmer ditches Olympic dream to protest ‘muderous regime’

Myanmar swimmer Win Htet Oo says the military government would use the games as a “propaganda exercise” and he would not march “under a flag steeped in my people’s blood".

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