such hypocrisy. olympic sports committees of several countries are opposed to any moves to boycott the coming olympic games, according to CNN. it accomplishes nothing, the US claims, and harms athletes’ interests.
this claim has been echoed by many EU nations and russia. during the moscow olympics in 1980, the US boycotted the games. in the LA olympics four years later, the USSR boycotted the games. these have not been the only cases.
what gives these gardanged countries the right to air their opinions now, several years after the fact their own countries engineered a mass boycott with the intent of shaming the organisers? just shut up and help china clear the air of smog and right their human rights record — for good!
From its Colorado headquarters, the U.S. Olympic Committee reiterated its stance that an American boycott is out of the question.
“Put together a ranking of the worst ideas ever conceived and ‘Olympic boycott’ would be at the top of that list,” USOC spokesman Darryl Seibel said. “Other than unnecessarily and unfairly punishing athletes, Olympic boycotts accomplish absolutely nothing.”
Russia warned against turning the Beijing Olympics into a political game.
“We would like to underscore that efforts to politicize the holding of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in China are unacceptable,” the government said.
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