The only thing I watched this year was the USA winning gold in men’s basketball last night.
If it wasn’t for my wife having it on as I walked in the room I wouldn’t have seen 5 minutes of it. As it was I saw less than 30
I love the Olympics but let’s never forget that the host is an oppressive, lying, cheating threat to peace and mankind.
I thought NBC did a much better job then usual. It used to be almost unwatchable. This time there was a lot less jumping around and more concentration on a single event. Less of the athlete back story crap. More on-line coverage available. An even-handed coverage of the Chinese. I would give it a 9.2.
Can you say, “The Potemkin Games.”
I watched about 14 hours of the Olympics this year, more than any year since 1968. The NBC, Oxygen, MSNBC coverage was excellent; the web site was excellent; the web video was excellent. Overall, this was the best Olympics ever for viewers.
It is an atrocity that China was selected as a host country, considering their repressive regime—political prisoners, invasion of Tibet and squashing the culture thereof, persecution of Christians, repression of free speech etc.
But the IOC has a history of giving the venue to repressive regimes: 1936 - Nazi’s; 1980 - USSR, Moscow, 2008 - China.
I have been praying for Chinese Christians every day of the Olympics. Here is the story of our prayer campaign from Voice of Martyrs:
“Pastor Zhang “Bike” Mingxuan, known for traveling across China on a bicycle to evangelize, was arrested by Chinese police just two days before the Olympics began. Pastor Bike was the inspiration for the recent partnership between The Voice of the Martyrs and China Aid Association to create the Olympic Prayer Band.
Pastor Asks for Prayer Band
Earlier this year, Pastor Bike pleaded with VOM staff to ask Christians to pray for persecuted Christians in China during the Olympics. The pastor voluntarily preaches the gospel openly in China despite being persecuted. He has asked for his identity to be revealed to bring continued attention to the persecution of Christians in Communist China.
Thanks to Pastor Bike’s inspiration and the commitment of concerned Christians across the United States, more than 800,000 prayer bands have been circulated. On Aug. 6, Pastor Bike was arrested while trying to deliver medicine to his ailing wife. His wife and another pastor were also arrested. We have also learned this week that Chinese officials are opening a full investigation of the Olympic Prayer Bands that were distributed to house church members within China. Despite this increased pressure from Chinese authorities, Chinese Christians continue to ask for prayer and to make their plight known.”
http://etools.780net.com/a/vomso/bg_vomso_wdbm_327.html
Yeah, it was so successful that the London mayor has decided that his olympics will at least be fun.
The athletes themselves with their performances do not reflect on China whatsoever. China remains an enemy to human rights and freedom and it won’t be long until they pull an equivilent to Russia’s invasion of Georgia. And it’s interesting to note that China relied mostly on JUDGED events to gain their advantage in gold. They were still bested by Americans in medal count and being in the top three of all sports. And they want to do away with softball and baseball-how about ping pong?
But, how HUGE was the “carbon footprint” of all those Fireworks?
What about their “second hand Smoke” effects?
Since mr Gore is in Denver {not China}, I assume there will be no Smokey fireworks at those events.