..., nor have I felt comfortable with the notion of taking the politics out of the Games (antithesis – why should the dedicated, talented and hard-working athletes be punished for the decisions of the IOC or the actions of the host country?). The boycott argument, eloquently rendered by Eric Reeves ( On Boycotting the Beijing Olympics , May 13, 2008) and so many others, states that China’s role in...
...that the government is in control. I cringed seeing Chairman Mao’s portrait staring at the marathoners running by. I would have flipped him off if I were an athlete. International Olympic Committee (IOC) – The IOC did nothing to help freedoms in China, in fact, turned a blind eye to all forms of abuses and even cheating by the Chinese. And the reasons for dropping baseball and softball? The most...
...France and takes gold in a game nobody gives a rat's ass about: Three New Criteria for Olympic Sports: Universal Appeal, Absolutism, Tradition. One issue that keeps popping up when the IOC decides who will host the games is the tendency to award hosting rights to more prosperous countries. Besides the aforementioned advantages of a stripped-down olympia, another advantage is the reduced...
...Bolt won the 100m (and also the 200m) at the Olympics this week. And he didn't just win by a little bit... he blew them all out of the water. New world record and everything. The kid is FAST!!! The IOC got upset, because Bolt has this little "victory" dance that he did after he won. It's kind of like the dance that football players do in the endzone. It's not terribly long, it's not all up in the...
...pity's sake. You can't win every time, and chances are as a world class athlete you're going to encounter judging/point systems that you think are biased against you. Part of being an athlete is dealing with those things. I think that the IOC is absolutely right to say that Abrahamian violated the spirit of fair play with his behavior. Don't they teach good sportsmanship to athletes anymore?
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... I would be, by now, scared to death. Not one, but more than a couple of sites are now targeted as fraudulent, and a lot of people may just loose their year savings on that. Let's keep bugging IOC and credit card companies till we see these fans have their hopes back. makes me really angry to see all this..... This is Humanizing the Beijing ticket scam, By Pat Imig, at Yahoo! ...
Daily Life Had my Individual Oral Commentary today, as usual I was a nervous wreck this morning. But totally glad it's finally over!! My extract which I chose was Gillivers Travels Chapter 12, the... HOPE that I'll at least pass, I KNOW I'll fail on chin up as I can't even do 1! Bye! PS. Click on Rikh's Blog on my blog, look at his post today, it's about our ex-friend Zachary. ~Zenz Secrets~
Daily Life My IOC is tomorrow arghhhh!!! Been studying the WHOLE of yesterday and today and I'm soooo stressed out! Ms Loh just killed me with 1 labreport and 4 Biology Assignments, going to do another IA on Tuesday, IOC is tomorrow and TOK Presentation is on Wednesday. A life of a student in Singapore is soooo stressful, I hate singapore... I'm being called back by the people of NS for another...
