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Athletes who take Tibet stand 'face Olympic cut'
Times Online ^ | April 11, 2008 | Ashling O’Connor

Posted on 04/10/2008 9:02:42 PM PDT by fishhound

Athletes who display Tibetan flags at Olympic venues — including in their own rooms — could be expelled from this summer’s Games in Beijing under anti-propaganda rules.

Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that competitors were free to express their political views but faced sanctions if they indulged in propaganda.

He accompanied those comments with an admission that the Games were in “crisis” after pro-Tibet protests engulfed the Olympic torch relay.

Mr Rogge’s call for Beijing to abide by its promise to address human rights was given short shrift by Beijing, which bluntly told him to keep politics out of the Games.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2008olympics; chicoms; china; ioc; olympics; rogge
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1 posted on 04/10/2008 9:02:43 PM PDT by fishhound
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To: fishhound
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2 posted on 04/10/2008 9:04:03 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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3 posted on 04/10/2008 9:08:22 PM PDT by MarMema (kosovo will always be Serbian)
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To: fishhound

I hope and, yes, pray that the Beijing Olympics melt down into a political and social disaster for the tyrannical CCP regime.

May they sweat and suffer the whole summer long.


4 posted on 04/10/2008 9:11:10 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: fishhound

So, what if China hosted the Olympics and no one came?


5 posted on 04/10/2008 9:11:15 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: fishhound
Jacques Rogge, the president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), said that competitors were free to express their political views but faced sanctions if they indulged in propaganda.

I presume that propaganda in this context means anything the Chi-Coms don't like.

6 posted on 04/10/2008 9:11:59 PM PDT by Huntress (“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.”--Tuco)
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To: SoldierDad

LOL
If no one came, there would still be no good air to breathe in Beijing.


7 posted on 04/10/2008 9:14:28 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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To: Huntress
I presume that propaganda in this context means anything the Chi-Coms don't like.

Ding ding ding!
8 posted on 04/10/2008 9:15:34 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four fried chickens and a coke)
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To: Petronski

I am wondering why the photo is cropped the way it is. The blue suit, must have been about to go balistic.


9 posted on 04/10/2008 9:15:51 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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Ok, then lets just end the games forever and no one will need to be bothered. It will save tax payers tons of money.
10 posted on 04/10/2008 9:16:11 PM PDT by org.whodat (What's the difference between a Democrat and a republican????)
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To: fishhound

Rogge is an unprincipled, anti-freedom, self-hating Westerner who is constantly on the lookout for ways to kowtow to totalitarians — the more brutal,the better.

This policy is obscene, and Rogge knows it. He’s enforcing the Butchers of Beijing’s totalitarianism for them to protect the poor babies’ sensitivities. Well, it’s time someone took a stand.

We should boycott the Beijing Olympics and bar Chinese goods from our country. If I were President, when the Beijing Olympics are opening (without Americans), I’d be visiting Taipei. From there, I’d go visit Daramsala.

And we should step up the arming of Taiwan. Support Free China and strengthen it as much as possible.


11 posted on 04/10/2008 9:16:38 PM PDT by TBP
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To: TigersEye; yorkie; JACKRUSSELL; TigerLikesRooster

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12 posted on 04/10/2008 9:17:14 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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To: fishhound

I wonder how much the ChiComs spent greasing this slime ball’s palms?


13 posted on 04/10/2008 9:18:20 PM PDT by TheWasteLand
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To: fishhound

What I would really like to see at this Olympics is for a bunch of the atheletes with no hope of winning a medal (e.g. folks like Eddie the Eagle Edwards, the Jamaican bobsled team, and the “Agony of Defeat” guy from ABC Wide World of Sports) to unfurl Tibetan flags at the opening ceremonies. They could get some attention for themselves and pi$$ off the Chi-Coms. And if enough of them do it, they’ll be pretty well insulated from reprisals.


14 posted on 04/10/2008 9:18:43 PM PDT by Huntress (“When you have to shoot, shoot, don’t talk.”--Tuco)
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To: org.whodat

At least let’s put an end to purely fascist manifestations of the torch run.

Sheesh.


15 posted on 04/10/2008 9:20:03 PM PDT by Petronski (Nice job, Hillary. Now go home and get your shine box.)
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To: Huntress

I would like to see Tibet field just one athelete.

Tibet would have to be invited.


16 posted on 04/10/2008 9:22:48 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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To: Petronski

Seems no one thought of supersoakers. Or did the authorities make it a felony to carry a bucket of water on the street.


17 posted on 04/10/2008 9:25:25 PM PDT by fishhound (Boycott the Olympics in China.)
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"At least let’s put an end to purely fascist manifestations of the torch run."

Totally agree.

(Boy, that feels strange!)
18 posted on 04/10/2008 9:26:31 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: fishhound

Yes, but it would only be the Chinese who were forced to breath it.


19 posted on 04/10/2008 9:27:18 PM PDT by SoldierDad (Proud Dad of a 2nd BCT 10th Mountain Soldier home after 15 months in the Triangle of death)
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To: fishhound
competitors were free to express their political views but faced sanctions if they indulged in propaganda.

How about putting Chinese flag on their door? Is it allowed?

20 posted on 04/10/2008 9:29:51 PM PDT by paudio (Michelle Obama: a Typical Black Woman)
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