2008 Beijing Olympics

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKlx...eature=related

and this.

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[SPJ]

SPJ

Is there a youtube of the 8 minute Athens closing which Zhang Yimou planned? I don't think I've ever seen it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWY9...eature=related

[David Jamieson]

well, i personally think that every Olympics has been usurped by the petty tyrants of governance pretty much since the beginning.

athletes and what they do have zero to do with a nation or it's foibles or great acts, and yet, every politician, regardless of country, consistently and always uses these games as another form of propaganda and lying to present their country in a different light than that of which it really is.

China is behaving no differently, but I would say they are hiding more than they are showing and it is weird how everyone is playing along in this most highly politicized and propaganda based games since the '36 games and hence the parallels drawn.

It can't be escaped for the sake of trying to wash over the iniquities of China's behaviours as a country and it's treatment of it's own people.

[David Jamieson]

One thing about the olympics is that it brings to the front of mind the cultural differences and the stupidity of humanity in it's unending greed and need to be one up from other humans based on arbitrary borders drawn on paper.

there is no one world one dream and those are stupid and empty words to throw out when the fundamental behaviours are unchanged.

You cannot merely paint a broken thing and consider it not broken because the paint is hiding the flaw.

[Black Jack II]

This Olympic season is a total joke. It is an workout in collective hypocrisy.

If you take a look at the Olympic creed, the most important aspect, is just to take part and not just to win, it's about the struggle of the moment and to have fought well.

Having it in China is just a total handjob of a bigger yuck-yuck joke. This Olympics was hijacked by a totalitarian **** hole regime in an effort to showcase the arrival of China as an up and coming economic player.

A player who only survives because of the money pumped into it by America business and government interests. Pull back the cash and it comes crashing down.

Same as the 1936 summer Olympics in Berlin and the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen were used by the Nazis to show the strength of their order for the benefit of domestic and foreign observers. Same as the Soviet Union did in the 1980 Moscow Summer Olympics to extol the non-realistic merits of Soviet Communism.

Same old same old.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tr46A...eature=related

free tibet

a fact or a view?

[SPJ]

Say what?

It is really a apolitical show.

in the beginning, the drumming is anouncing that we start something/activity to the heaven/god.

the scroll is a record or something written.

it showed historical tidbits that China was open, such as tang dynasty open to budhhism, silk road to trade, travel to india for buddhist sutra--, zheng he to explore the seven seas to trade and collect info or find a silk road on the sea, since the road on the land was blocked by mongolians, and moslem states--

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the future.

the white sheet of paper, let us start a new future.

we paint the water and mountain shan shui (nature), the smiley sun

and steps of athletes from many nations of the world.

let us work together and be in harmony with nature, and among people.

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let us do this for the sake of the children.

we start with 56 ethnic chinese and then the rest of the world.

harmony or he is the theme.

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[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMWT6...eature=related

true tibet

a fact or a view?

[TaichiMantis]

No country actively engaged in the occupation of another country should be allowed to compete or host the games.

The end.

Then bye-bye USA!

[Wood Dragon]

Then bye-bye USA!

Also, the Allied Nations occupying Germany and Japan during the postwar era should have been banned from the '48 and '52 Games, too.

Context, schmontext!

[mkriii]

I didn't know exactly where to put this thread so if I put it in the wrong place please forgive me. I was watching the womens gymnastics last night and I felt so bad for the three girls that messes up. The one girl on the balance beam fell and then the girl on the spring vault didn't land correctly and fell and the third girl on the uneven bars that missed the bar and fell flat on her back. Think of all the hours of hard training that they put in. It'as kinda the same with us martial artists that train so hard and put in all this time into a form and then when it comes time to perform you forget a section of it or you don't land a kick right and fall. It's so disappointing inside when you don't succeed at something you've worked so hard at. What about the Romanians?......They haven't been doing good as of late either. The commentators were saying that the gymnastic events were always thier best thing but this new generation are to soft and don't have what it takes anymore (intensity). At one time almost all Romanian gymnasts wanted to be like Nadia Comaneci but thats not true anymore.

http://www.infoplease.com/biography/...acomaneci.html

What did you all think of the gymnastics?

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHXw4gBo4mA

1. agreed that olympics are plaqued with politics of hosting and participating countries.

romania no longer supported gym events, India is like never a big fan for the games,--

2. however, may be we just put aside domestic and foreign agenda or whatever political strifes and struggles and pause them for a while.

3. let the games be the biggest events for the athletes, the endeavor of an individual, --

let athletes have their moments.

while we have all the rest of time to persue whatever collective ideas, or what we think the world or each country should be run.

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even God rested on the seventh day or sunday after creating the whole universe.

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[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAorx...eature=related

so we "summon the heroes"

or athletes to compete in the games.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sySgV...eature=related

call upon heroes.

at the centennial olympic park fountain.

[SPJ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQgpCts5Dbg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbX_Q...eature=related

interesting tapes.

from Mao inviting ping pong

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rebuilding from the wreckage of cultural revolution post mao.

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to hosting olympic games today.

China and the world both have moved a long way since then.