yeah I am not sure I would criticise F1 drivers, if they skip the event, they get 0 points. They had no choice.
Golfers can get in the bin though.
It is also a bit much with the golf European Tour taking the moral high ground when they have held several events in Saudi before.
why is this golf tour when people have decided to draw the line morally? What about the Grand Prix, heavyweight title bouts, lots of other events in other morally questionable countries.
Why do the golfers get it in the neck but Anthony Joshua is fine?
I don't really follow boxing, but pretty sure people have voiced disapproval of many sporting events in Saudi Arabia before. Both because of human rights, and the war in Yemen.
The Grand Prix there has been controversial from the start. Vettel and Hamilton have voiced their unease about racing there publicly.
https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/saudi-minister-invites-hamilton-to-discuss-concerns/9509380/https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/sport/2022/apr/05/f1-drivers-will-continue-to-speak-out-says-drivers-association-chairNewcastle have been condemned pretty heavily for the Saudi money and so on.
I think there is a difference between going there for one race and bankrolling your football team for the year/ running a whole golf tour with Saudi money. Also it easier to give Hamilton some benefit of the doubt when he has been critical from the start and clearly didn't get input into the decision to race there. The golfers have taken the decision to earn most of their money there knowing who was bankrolling it.
It is also easier to be critical of the golfers given so many of them were pretty dislikeable in the first place!
All the big names must surely have been set for life already so didn't need the extra millions? The PGA tour money was already pretty eye watering even without this.
Happy to be not making any effort to watch any of it, and hope it all fails miserably.
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