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Originally Posted by fable  Nice location for the Olympics, China. It pays to have the big bucks to do it right, and nobody should look at anything else, because it doesn't matter, right? |
Well, it's what the IOC believes at least. Which is a shame imo. If sport should be anything more than entertainment for the rich I believe we should welcome the fact that people like Younis Mahmoud or John Carlos and Tommie Smith does exist.
I wish the international protests could cover a bit more ground than the Olympics though. Here in Sweden for example, there are voices arguing that the Olympic team should stage some kind of protest, but when Swedish companies expand in china it is apparently not an issue.
That said, I'm not sure a boycott is a good thing. As far as I've understood the Chinese government is less oppressive now than it have been in the past. Perhaps more can be accomplished with a carrot then with a stick. I'm not sure either way.