links for 2008-03-29
Posted on March 29, 2008 by nolympics
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Britain and several other European Union countries have rejected calls for a boycott of the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in August.
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The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, yesterday became the first world leader to decide not to attend the Olympics in Beijing.
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“The German position and the British position are not the same,” French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said, deflecting questions on France’s own ambiguous stance.
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European Union External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner raised the threat of a boycott of the Beijing Olympics Games over Tibet in an interview with a German weekly to appear Sunday.
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The Olympics, politics and protest have been intertwined almost since the very birth of the modern Games in 1896, expressed through banishments, boycotts, demonstrations and terrorism.
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Diack believes athletes cannot “make a government change their policies - especially China.”
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“We athletes don’t have any special responsibility to react to what is happening in China,” “But we can exercise influence by dropping the opening ceremony in Beijing. That would be a protest, and I could join it.”
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Of course, Mr. Tusk’s absence will be slightly marred by the attendance of our Village Idiot, otherwise known as Lech Kaczynski, the Prez himself. Because he’s just got to do the opposite to Tusk each and every time.
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