Coca-Cola's Olympic Sponsorship Criticized

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Public Health Experts Want the Olympics to Drop Its Oldest Sponsor

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Coca-Cola Company is the longest-standing sponsor of the Olympic Games .

Calls from public health experts for the International Olympic Committee to end the partnership have grown louder over recent years .

The 2024 Olympics are in fact sponsored by Sanofi , a pharma company that researches diabetes and potential treatments.

Coca-Cola’s 14 -person athlete roster was revealed in the lead up to the 2024 games.

The face of this image is this image, in which the athletes hold bottles of Coca-Cola's drinks.

Certain athletes hold full-sugar Coke-Cola itself, which has 53 grams of sugar per 500ml—almost double the recommended daily sugar intake for an adult.

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