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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Tell that to Jesse Owens.
Sadly I don't buy that the Olympics transend politics. As soon as you open the Pandora's box of inviting the world and the worlds media to your country, then you have to live with the fall out of it.
In a lot of ways, I'm betting that the Free Tibet and the media absolutely partied when the Olympics in China were announced. When China invited the world, they gave the opening on that world soapbox for the laundrey to be aired internationally.
If the Chinese didn't want the blow back, they shouldn't have applied for the Olympics.
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I bet China thought they could sweep all that ugly stuff under the carpet and no one would notice. Basically what they have been doing in the past. But with the whole world looking at China they aren't going to ignore it anymore.
However I do agree that boycotting the Olympics isn't fair for the athletes. Everything that China has been doing isn't new, this didn't just come to light. World leaders are well aware of what is happening in China. They have had plenty of time to do something about it and they haven't. Boycotting the Olympics seems like a really odd course of action. It would be like if you knew your neighbour beat his wife, but the only thing you did about it was not show up at his annual BBQ.