But no amount of diplomatic niceties can cloak state-funded efforts to win, especially when individual freedoms are suppressed for the greater national good.

• 但是再怎么多的外交辞令都无法掩盖国家财政对赢取奥运所作的努力的支持，特别是在个体自由被巨大的国家利益所压制的背景之下。