If this happened in the USA, people would be in jail for child abuse. The IOC has no business giving out medals to these abusers. And shame on NBC for talking about how "wonderful" they are. They are young people abused by the state.
What a sick, pathetic communist culture.
Can you say “Pyrrhic Victory?”
Yup, that’s what the olympics is about....slaves sacrificing to make the state look good.
Sheesh.
susie
The Beijing Olympics showed us how an evil dictatorship use their own people as machines to achieve a goal including the human abuse of their athletes.
PS: We won more total medal than China, 110 USA versus 100 China. We achieved a better record in Beijing than in Athens or Sydney both in Gold and total medals. At least 20 gold medals won by the Chinese are in very insignificant sports games that we will not compete in to start with.
Great call by the IOC. This sure changed a lot in China awarding them the games. I’m sure Jacque Rogge is pating himself on the back.
How the heck did this get published in the LA Times?
That’s real courage...wait until the games are over, and your reporters are safely on a plane outside of Chinese airspace...and then run the report.
Let’s hear it for the MSM.
I actually felt sorry for the Chinese athletes. If they won gold or did poorly, I couldn’t help but wonder how it would affect them and their families. They paid a very high price just so their glorious leaders could gloat.
And the next generation, in addition to having no brothers and sisters, will also have no cousins, no aunts, no uncles, no nephews, and no nieces.
This is because I do not remember stuff like that for very long. There are maybe three or four gold medal winners that I can think of from years past. Mark Spitz in 1972, U.S. hockey Team in 1980, Katrina Navritolova in 1976 and Mary Lou Retton doing that tumbling thing back around 1984. Oh yeah, and who can forget Tonya Harding "stealing" that figure skating medal from that stuck-up woman who married some rich guy and never said very much - Nancy something-or-other.
But that's about it for Olympic memories. All the rest, I have to look up.
And so it will be the same for this year's Olympics. I think I will always remember that swimming dude who got something like 12 gold medals and of course, those scantily clad women playing that beach volleyball thing. Don't remember if they got a gold medal or not but damn, they were pretty good.
So there you go. As far as Chinese athletes, I can't remember the name of a single one. They all pretty much look the same to me and all of them seem to have names that I can't pronounce anyhow.
So anyway, that's the Olympics so far as I'm concerned. Now it's back to watching re-runs of COPS and getting caught up on that Mad Men show that everybody keeps yapping about.
The monetary cost was about $100m of Chinese taxpayer funds per gold medal over the last four years. That’s on top of the $60b spent on sports-related infrastructure for the Olympics. I don’t begrudge them their medals. If China’s rulers are this desperate to bask in reflected glory, who am I to object? Let them build more expensive (and useless) monuments to their vanity.
If this happened in the USA, people would be in jail for child abuse. The IOC has no business giving out medals to these abusers. And shame on NBC for talking about how "wonderful" they are. They are young people abused by the state.
I was talking to my fiance about this. If China thinks there record haul of gold medals is going to impress many people, they miscalculated again.
If anything, most Japanese probably feel pity for the Chinese medal winners because four years from now, they are going to be completely forgotten there will be another shipment of medal seekers out of the sport concentration camps.
Hate those bastards!
Unless, we want to win more than they do.
I suppose it is our choice if we want to level the playing field, even the score, and kick their asses.
Either that, or we suck it up and don't whine.
Them's the cold hard facts of dealing with Asia in a competitive sense.
If it is not worth it (and who in their right mind wants to pay this high of a price!?) dont we just fold our cards and go home.
There is only victory (or trying as hard as we can for it) on the one hand, or giving up and not being a player.
No whining allowed. Not much middle ground to speak of.
The Japanese were reflecting on this point all this morning on the radio. "To beat the barbarous, bastard Chinese, we (the Japanese, they said), will ourselves have to become barbarous and bastardly." Most here in Japan I talk to, do not want to. (Sentiment to do so may have been there 60 years ago, though. Talk about self-sacrifice for the nation!)
By the way, lately I’ve noticed some more honest articles coming out from the LA Times, some that I would actually give the time of day. Is there a change going on there?
Slavery built the pyramids, too, but there’s NOTHING to admire in achievements that do not come from free people freely choosing to discipline themselves for noble ends!!
The PRC is a slave state and nothing that they can force people to do is worthy of admiration, no matter how initially impressive it might seem.......
Yes, of course, and last year I had some really smart Freeper, oh so educated and familiar with the Russian way, much smarter than I, explain to me how Communism is an ideology, not a religion.
Uh huh.