O’Reilly pens op-ed for PPH about Putin and the Olympics
Norm O’Reilly, dean of the UMaine Graduate School of Business and professor of marketing and sport management, co-authored an op-ed for the Portland Press Herald stating that the international athletic community needs to take more drastic measures to isolate Russia. The piece read, “This systematic ostracization of Russia from the global sporting community, including explicit denouncement by Russian and Belarusian athletes, will be a personal cost to Putin and will anger elite Russians who benefit from the prestige of sport. This could be the fuel needed to embolden ordinary Russian and Belarusian citizens to encourage an end to senseless aggression.”