[SeaHawkFan]

IOC should have insisted that China clean up the environmental problems in Bejing prior to being awarded the Olympics. this is going to be a huge embarassment for the IOC and China.

[yankeedame]

...Olympics. this is going to be a huge embarassment for the IOC and China.

With all due respect allow me reply: "In you dreams." When all is said and done it will be little more than a shadow gliding over the sun.

• When it comes to the world at large, the Olympic Committee is unelected, unaccountable, and indifferent. The worst that can happen is they will need to lay low for a while, a short while. Anybody remember Utah? Or that hockey game? Or the basketball game? Or that fencing match?
• As for China, the prestige, the glow of finally having "made it", will be more than the finger wagging they're going to get.