Is The Olympics A Sporting Or Political Event?
No doubt you are all aware that President Sarkozy and the French Government are refusing to rule out a boycott of the Olympics games in Beijing on the moral grounds of China’s involvement with Tibet as well as the same moral dilemma that has afflicted millions of people, regarding carrying the Olympic torch throughout London. Including an open letter by Nick ‘Cleggover’ Clegg, to the Prime Minister urging him to reconsider and boycott the welcoming of the torch into Number 10.
There are protesters that include snubbing personalities, who oppose China’s atrocities in Tibet and Darfur. Of course; any scrupulous and balanced individual would be outraged by China’s human rights record and the events they are responsible of in Sudan and in Tibet; but while snubbing the Beijing Olympic games and everything associated these moral and ethical individuals have to be careful of being hypocrites.
I don’t see how snubbing the Olympic Games will resolve or expedite a solution. Isn’t the Olympics a sporting event not a political event, I think that politics should play no part in a sporting competition.
How can these Olympic snubbers ignore the other elements of China in their lives and not snub those? I can guarantee the same people who ostensibly do not endorse the Olympic Games, happily spend their pounds buying cheap clothes and cheap toys; plying the Chinese Government with billions to invest in making the Games a reality. For example; why haven’t France imposed an embargo on Chinese products?
While I am looking for forward to the Beijing Games, everyone is entitled to have an opinion on the matter, I just wish the majority of people that don’t wouldn’t be such hypocrites about it.
The Debate Club, Troy Kennedy, Is the Olympics a sporting or political event
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