New Olympic sport - Bashing Beijing!

[peterloo]

[quote=peterloo]I found myself in quite an embarassing position these days.

Despite the fact that I'm going against what the Chinese government does these days, I feel that some of the people out there are acting against Chinese collectively, which, of course, sadden me

Yes. If the flame went off in front of the whole world, that would make my day.

If I were a foreigner, I would definitely avocate putting out the flame with a fire extinguisher, in the same burtal way as how the government officials treat some of the protesters or so called "counter-revolutionists"

Yet, if I draw this parallel to an incident happened in the past, I would have different points of view.

The torch ceremony is seen by some as controversal. During one incident in the 1956 Summer Games in Melbourne, nine Australian students, most notably Barry Larkin, staged a hoax during the relay when the torch entered Sydney. The students wanted to protest against what they saw as "Too much reverence," to the flame, considering the Nazi origins. Larkin pretended to be an Olympic athlete, carring a fake torch made out of a burning pair of underpants and a plum pudding can on the end of a chair leg. He presented it to the mayor of Sydney, Pat Mills, and escaped before anyone realised he was an imposter.[8]

How would you feel if you were a German or the Sydney mayor, how would you feel if someone pulled out such a trick on you and embarass you in front of the public?

Although Olympic is always promoted as "Politics free", some elements or traces of politics can be found in it. The full support of Olympic by the British leaders is clearly a classical example.

The chinese paid millions and millions to get their propaganda show - so I think they deserve to get something for their money.

If you were IOC, you would definite BAR the country from hosting the event unless they had invested a large sum of money to make you happy, wouldn't you?
Undoubtedly, all politics are around of the main issue ~ benefit. If there is benefit, everything is OK. If not, vice versa.


OK, the main point for me is that, I HATE massive generalization. 1 government improperly handling the event = 1.2 billion morons or ****ers