Posts Tagged ‘Summer Olympics’
Olympics Medal Count Revisited
I saw this Yahoo Sports articles complaining about the judged events in the Olympics.
Every judging break seems to have gone China’s way during these Olympics. I’m not suggesting a conspiracy, I just think that judges are humans who are influenced by big names, fans and other external factors. Oh, and they’re also terrible. Judged events [...]
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Tags: Olympics, Summer Olympics
Here is Nina Hachigian of the California for the Center for American Progress discussing UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s decision to boycott the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics.
America has so little leverage to influence human rights in China that it is supremely tempting to hold the Games hostage. Yet the only proven methodology [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Beijing Olympics, Boycott, Boycott of the Olympics, Center for American Progress, China, China Civil Society, China Olympics, Nina Hachigian, Olympics Boycott, Opening Ceremony Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Olympic Boycott Links
Here is a couple of articles, etc about Olympic protests.
I’d Do it Again -Former Olympian John Carlos famous for raising his fist in sign of defiance on the Olympic podium tells Le Mode he would find a way to protest the situation in Tibet if he were an athlete this time around.
Anti France Protest [...]
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Tags: Beijing Olympics, China Olympics, John Carlos, Olympic Boycott, Summer Olympics
Olympics Boycott 2008
Here is Ezra Klein discussing Democratic Candidates coming to around support a partial boycott of the Chinese Olympics
I can’t figure out what the candidates promising, or sorta-promising, to boycott the Summer Olympics think they’re achieving. On the one hand, concern for human rights violations in China could so concern you that you’d apply enormous [...]
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Tags: Beijing Summer Olympics, China, Ezra Klein, Olympic Boycott, Opening Ceremony Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
So clearly Hillary Clinton has been reading my blog and has come on board with my plan* to boycott the opening ceremony of the Olympics.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday called on President Bush to boycott the opening ceremonies for the Olympic games in Beijing, a fresh sign that politics, not sports, may take [...]
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Tags: Beijing 2008, China, Hillary Clinton, Olympics, Politics, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Human Rights Vs. Handball
Commenter Jared writes about my hope for a European lead boycott of the Summer Olympics
All this does is hurt the athletes. If you want to boycott the country, then boycott the country, but don’t hurt people who have trained their entire lives for this.
At the risk of having a crazed dude at a keyboard moment [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Beijing, Beijing Olympics, Bejing Summer Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, Economic Sanctions, Summer Olympics, Tibet
More Euro-cott 2008
Via the Washington Times
Something’s cooking on Mount Olympus, and it doesn’t smell like Szechuan Chicken with Chef’s Famous Garlic Sauce. Zeus and the gang are frowning on Beijing.The latest Chinese rape of Tibet is putting second thoughts into the heads of people you might not expect to entertain tough thoughts. “There will be a [...]
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Tags: China, Olympics, Summer Olympics, Tibet, Washington Times
Euro-cott 2008?
So it looks like there is some movement in the direction of a European lead boycott of the Beijing Olympics according to the Associated Press.
The president of the European Parliament said European countries should not rule out threatening China with an Olympic boycott if violence continues in Tibet.
“Beijing must decide itself, it should immediately negotiate [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Bejing Olympics, China, European Union, Olympics Boycott, Summer Olympics, Tibet
Which “We” Should Boycott
Short list of people that are discussing boycotting the 2008 Olympics because of violence in Tibet
Jack Cafferty
Some Olympians (According to Wikipedia)
One of my co-workers
Before the violence in Tibet I had been a proponent of the idea that a boycott would heedlessly antagonize China. But it’s starting to feel like not boycotting would be a de [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, Summer Olympics, Tibet, U.S.-Sino Relations, United States of America
Tibet
This is a good post by James Fallows on the recent violence in Tibet and how China is reacting to it. However I don’t think the opening sentence here is supported by the rest of the post. (Emphasis added below)
1) In judging popular reaction in China to this episode, bear in that mind few ordinary [...]
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Tags: 2008 Olympics, Boycott of the Olympics, China, James Fallows, Summer Olympics, Tibet
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