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Originally Posted by Sausage
Yeah saw most of it and I have to say despite my reservations China did an amazing job with the games! Really impressed with the whole thing, and its going to be a hard act to follow  Good job China ... you pulled it off |
riiight, using 14 year old girls as athletes (against olympic rules), arresting reporters, detaining protesters, faked lip synched child singers, stabbing, ...
there are countless news articles quetioning why we held the Olympics there and why it was a bad decision.
http://www.kansascity.com/495/story/764015.html
David Wallechinsky, vice-president of the International Society of Olympic Historians and a frequent television commentator, said the Beijing games had not lived up to the Olympic charter, which condemns "discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise."
"What was the goal of bringing the games to Beijing?" Wallechinsky asked. "If they wanted to bring the games to the most populous nation in the world, they succeeded.
"If they wanted to help the Communist Party issue propaganda to its own people, they succeeded. If it was to improve human rights, they failed miserably."