By Chris Almeida,Jon Wertheim Between the Winter Olympics in Beijing, the World Cup in Qatar and the emergence of the Saudi-backed LIV Golf, 2022 was the year of reputation laundering through sports. As 2022 wraps up, SI staffers Jon Wertheim and Chris Almeida will discuss some of the themes of the year in sports. First up: sportswashing. Jon Wertheim: Sportswashing to me is interesting on a few levels. This whole idea is predicated on the fact that sports have become so big that they can be used to rehabilitate a country’s reputation, supposedly. And then you also have the potential backlash …