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Concern for Olympic Committee & Plans for Beijing
Since there is so much confusion about what is going on for the Beijing Olympics, I thought I would find a video to help shed some light on it…
Please Comment in the box below to let us know what Your Opinion is in the Comment Box Below…
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I hope you found this video on Championship Circle informative! Until next time…
Play Like a Champion,
Kimberly Edwards 
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[tags]Beijing Olympics, 2008 Olympics, Olympics, summer Olympics, Olympic news[/tags]
Some questions raised are:
1. Are the athletes warranted in being worried about bomb or terrorist attacks @ the Summer Games in Beijing?
2. What can be done to alleviate the concerns?
3. Do you think they could relocate this summer Olympics back to Greece since these are the newest facilities besides China, so that the Games can still go on?
4. Where will this leave China?
5. What sport will you miss most if the Games don’t go on this year?
Just a few eyebrow raisers to think about!
Kimberly Edwards
This matter has been gaining tons of attention more and more lately.
I thought you made an interesting point about moving the games to Greece. That’d be cool. But when dealing with large groups (especially governments or countries) they tend to move slowly.
I tell you what though… I understand that the protesting is for a great cause (life and humanity), yet I’d still be devastated if the games didn’t go on. I mean, the games only come around once every 4 years. Many sports figures build their whole lives around getting and competing at these games.
…And they also “bring the world together”.
I don’t think we’ll see any terrorist bombings of the Olympic Games because of the fear that China would retaliate…Although protesters are making quite the riot.
Great post Kimberly! Thanks for getting the convo start too.
Kenney
I don’t think that there is any way possible for the Olympics to be held in China without considering many horrific consequences that will occur as a result of the games. The opposition to the Human Rights situation is too great. I don’t have all the answers, but a relocation of the games seems to be the best idea, at this time….but then, terrorism and many other threats can still find their way anywhere around the world.
Sylvester L. Speed, 2.2
A very complicated problem deserving of a educated answer and not one I speak from. The U.S. finds itself in quite a quandary; on one hand being indebted to China and turning our heads as to how they behave with human rights and the treatment of the Tibetan people. Not that the U.S. can boast of much better treatment of some of it’s society, as in veterans, homeless, low end welfare. This potential explosive situation was brought on by many years of bad U.S. policy in how we seem to turn a blind eye to human rights when it seems to serve our purpose, as with the Saudi Arabian oil. The world knows that the U.S. will change it’s policy every 4 or 8 years and we cannot be trusted to be steadfast in what the American people believe to be in the best interest of our country. As much as we would like to believe, the American people have very little influence when it comes to U.S. policy and can only effect as to who we select or elect to set it. The U.S. Government, in spite of what we would like to think, is not perceived as being trustworthy but the American people fair much better in their judgment. As prestigious as the Olympics are to athletes, one must ask, Why is China hell bent on convincing the world, using enormous power and control, it has something to gain from hosting? It can’t be the money, and in view of what has happened, it can’t leapfrog them into the mutual admiration society among friendly nations.
China shouldn’t have gotten the games in the first place. Still can’t believe they beat out Toronto.
China’s human rights abuse rapsheet is so long it’s ridiculous, I don’t know what the IOC was thinking.
It’s a sad situation because if the games are boycotted, a lot of athletes who have trained for the last 4 years or more will have done it all in vain.
But like I said, this shouldn’t have happened in the first place.
What China is doing, what their shortcomings in human rights are has not been a secret during the past years, while China prepared for the Olympics.
Why were there no demonstrations earlier? Why was there not stronger pressure on China to comply with, what the Western world demands as human rights, before it came to this crisis?
Why was there not stronger debate within the Olympic committee before China was considered as “worthy” to host the games this year?
Or were these actions “saved” for this moment?
I wrote these words on the day of 9/11
They r also Copy Writed… these r my take on the situational stance…
This day in the free world that a mass problem has come to pass where the free world has come to a place that no one person thought would come on this soil, as this has come yes, our soil of the free world has become soiled. What is to come now that this has happened? Are we to condemn the ignorance of people abroad that celebrate the death of many that has done nothing. Who or what would say to do and on this here situation of ultimate chaos and sadness and with utmost anger. So to all this what can we really do but sit and wait till some sick and twisted people do this again or do we strongly retaliate. We must not act out on the innocent just because they have done this to us and who really are the innocent ones anyway? We cannot say there is really an innocent party here on both parts. We both have issues being us and whoever had the gall to act out on this here free world to have soiled this here soil which takes not kindly to the cowardas acts of terror. So. to what end will hatred come? Which in this time it comes to were killing each other is the only solution. What a day it is that when everyone does hate each other completely, then that is the end of ourselves, our race and culture and ultimately our humanity and self worth.
5:36 PM 9/11/01
ray
How many posts did it take here before, just as liberals ALWAYS do, some one blamed America for all of this? This, coming the day after pelosi and her hench – idiots helped out a mighty tyrant in the middle east while putting at risk from said evil-doer a needed ally!!!
It is not our place to boycott, sanction, criticise or denigrate the Chinese people. It is not the Chinese people who responsible for the evildoings in Tibet, (or anywhere in China itself), it is the Chinese leadership. For it is the leaders of a nation who are responsible and that is where the buck stops. The people are merely led, in this case by means of oppression, twisted didactical practices and evil propaganda.
All our efforts towards gaining freedom for Tibet should, therefore, be directed at the Chinese government.
Boycotting the Olympic games will neither help the Tibetans nor the Chinese people in their cause for freedom. Indeed the international sportsmanship and good will on display along with the spectacle of the games themselves can only infuse goodwill among the people.
It’s time the Pandora’s box that is China was opened and examined. We would hope that being the host country of the Olympics would help a country and it’s people. In this case the polar opposite will come to pass. The people are loosing homes, lively hoods, their already meager rights are now restricted to the point of spiritual murder. Examine the past and current behavior of the country’s government to the practice of Falun Dafa. The examples of the torture its followers have suffered, are horrific and most likely under reported. Take a trip to any exhibit of “The Human Body”, currently on tour in multiple sites around the world and see a man, woman or child of Chinese descent. The Asians are very private about death. Ancestry is to be honored, not displayed. How often have we asked ourselves why and how do so many of these bodies of such apparently young people become available from one, especially corrupt and cruel country become available. I’m troubled because these and many more acts I’m not aware of, are by no means NEW. The world has been aware, the Olympic Committee had to be aware. Why were they chosen over Toronto in the first place? Is this an example of the Olympic Committee using their forum to enact another agenda? The poor people of China are paying for this in blood, sweat, history, spirituality and lives. We, the world at large, cannot condone the acts of the Chinese government. We have no business sending our Athletes and representatives to such a place.
Susan
My friend, arabbitwhisperer, on Stumble Upon commented:
“Politics should be kept out of it. Period.”
Thanks Curtis!!!
Kimberly Edwards
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cjokay on Stumble Upon said:
“The fact that China got the Olympic games is an absolute joke.The fact that they are even considering Chicago for the 2016 Olympic games is almost as unfunny!” cjokay
Kimberly Edwards
My friend on stumble upon, kelliannie, has to say:
“What a mess!!! I’ve review this and posted on the site. For the record I’m against going to China.”
Thanks Susan!
Kimberly Edwards
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Politics twist strangely. First, with Nixon it was
Ping Pong in China… Now it is the whole world Olympics…. However, it is countries , like China, who know how to deal with murderous Islamic Terrorist…… Let’s watch it play out!!! Might be really interesting.
I think what is going on in China is horrendous. Why is it now that China has the Olympic games that people are sitting up and discussing the torture that these people are going through. If they had not been given the Olympics does that mean that everything that is going on would have been swept under the carpet and ignored?
Relocate the games!
Thanks Kimberly
My stumble upon friend, testsandtutors, believes:
“They should still hold them there. It’s a wonderful opportunity to have a discussion about human rights. China is feet are being held to the fire on this issue. They can’t avoid it any longer. I beleive the IOC ought to allow athletes to protest.” testandtutors
Kimberly Edwards
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