Official 2008 Olympics Thread
Official 2008 Olympics Thread
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The bottom line with all this is that the IOC may have fucked up giving them the games.
But don't shit on the whole Olympics... the dreams of countless of thousands of athletes from around the world. Sometimes the only chance at the world stage many small and impoverished countries ever see, is wrong. The ideal of the Olympics is solidarity, ever temporarily, and should surpass the host.
Its not supposed to be about politics... besides, opening up China to the world and raising people's awarness of the problems can only help long term, rather than keeping them walled up. The IOC saw this as an opportunity to re-introduce China to the world. Now lets see if it was the right idea.