i’m slowly starting to get sick of the International Olympic Comittee. while the olympics games still claim to be a peaceful come-together of nations it has long gone astray from its original cause. so it seems like bitter irony when IOC-spokesperson Kevan Gosper condemns the protesters all over the world and especially those who stepped in the way of the olympic flame yesterday for being “full of hate” and asking them to “give way to the peaceful olympic flame”. mr. gosper seems to be – as the rest of the IOC – ignoring the fact that giving the Olympics to China inevitably would draw those protests on every which level. it’s a sad story that the olympic movement, being the force that it is today even business-wise, hides behind empty words or – even more likely – looks the other way. i do hope, deep inside, that us, the world, the people on the streets, writers and journalists, every single voice that raises, will force the IOC to turn its head back around. I do belive it was a good idea to give the Olympics to China. I just doubt mine are the same reasons than the IOC’s but I have this feeling down inside, that this time they won’t get away with it.<\/p>\n
I believe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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