links for 2008-03-30
Posted on March 30, 2008 by nolympics
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As Lhasa has supposedly quieted down, the anti-CNN.com crowd has gone off the deep end, that might be worth exploring more. The death threats they’ve been making towards Western media representatives stationed in China certainly haven’t gone unnoticed.
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Almost 60 per cent of respondents to a Sunday newspaper survey are in favour of a Swiss boycott of the Olympics opening ceremony in Beijing on August 8.
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Interesting debate between a human rights activist and an official of the International Olympic Committee about whether U.S. government officials, and perhaps even athletes, should boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic games this August.
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Former defence minister George Fernandes has criticised the government for having “surrendered” to China on the Tibet issue, even as he urged India to boycott the Beijing Olympics and called for disrupting the torch relay in the country.
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If the IOC wished for a non-political games then it is hard to see why it chose China in the first place with it’s government that is rightly bitterly disliked by people who hold democratic ideals close to their heart.
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I will be disgusted if any governmental figures from UK attend the Olympics this summer.
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The sports minister of the northern Belgian region of Flanders said he will not attend the opening ceremony in Beijing, as it could be used for propaganda purposes.
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To demand that all athletes boycott the Summer Games is cruel and unnecessary; let them go, if they choose to, but let them speak.(…) Perhaps only a consumer boycott will get the attention of American businesses.
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