2008 Beijing Olympics

[rogue]

Best guess: What are the chances of something major going down at the Olympics?

[sanjuro_ronin]

Maybe the president of Iran is using the guys in blue when he does.

Maybe, but when Maddass Hussein was in power, your didn't see the president of Iran anywhere near Iraq.
Nothing like a good war to bring enemies together for a bar-b-que.

[rogue]

I doubt he'd last ten minutes walking around without the US provided security to protect his sorry arse.

[sanjuro_ronin]

I doubt he'd last ten minutes walking around without the US provided security to protect his sorry arse.

Is that why we see Bush doing the same thing?

Anyways, sporting events should be the target of politics, the boycotts of the past did ZERO to change anything.
Just hurts the athletes for no reason.

[Lucas]

One could wager Bush would'nt last very long walking the streets in the USA without protection.

[WinterPalm]

One could wager Bush would'nt last very long walking the streets in the USA without protection.

For a very good reason!

[rogue]

Too many idiots out there.

Meanwhile Chicomm thugs get run of the streets.

[SPJ]

actually,

they are "specially" trained police.

the mission is to watch the torch 24/7 by shifts.

they have to run 40 to 50 kilometers each day along with torch carrying olympic athletes.

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they had to take a bus in paris.

the "blue dudes" are no match for angry crowds/masses.

[SPJ]

my brother was saying

the fire/torch was put out 4 times in Paris, it is meaningless, now,

the fire is supposed to be lit at Greece, stays lit till lighting up the torch in beijing

and stay lit till 2008 summer games are over.

then light up the torch of the next hosting country.

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symbolism of carrying on the spirits of Olympic games.

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this is the first in history that the fire was put out four times or if ever in the process of being carried thru participating countries.

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I said. it is only a symbol.

the fire may be put out, we may light it up again.

or just use the rain and weather proof flashlight mimicking a flame.

but in all seriousness.

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the torch carrying athletes some how become a prey or victim among the political wrestling or tug of war among the crowds.

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which is--

[David Jamieson]

I don't think the athletes are the target audience of the protestations about China. I think that everyone who has ever had any sort of a grudge at all with China for good reasons or not is simply going to use the opportunity to as often as possible raise the issue of choice.

And there are a few choices when it comes to picking something to protest about how China is run.

On the other side of the coin is support for change in China. I think we have seen a lot of chnage in China as a country in t last decade and we are seeing even more of it with China opening it's doors to the world as host of the olympics.

I'm sure that if the games were held in London there would be protests just as there would be protests if the games were held in the USA somewhere. You would have thousands lining the streets and burning effigies of Bush over the Iraq situation an dso on.

It's become a political circus and the media companies are writing the narrative for us and hoping that we get on the bus!

nonsense. Just let the people run their races and throw their hammers and javelins and move on. It is not gonna change the world.

[UK MONK]

in 2007 i was training at epo wushu college in dengfeng (shaolin). i was woken up one morning by my coach and told to get my performance cloths on. turns out that the chairman of the olympics was at my school. i gave a performance for him and the press that was there.

he was a nice guy and he started talking to me. he asking me about myself and why i was training in china and also my opinion on wushu in the olympics. so we got chatting and i asked if wushu was going to be an event. he replied "no, but it will be a performance event." he then went on to hint that it might be a legitimate event in 2012 in london.

so who knows whats going on lol.

[GeneChing]

It was a beautiful day in the city. No city throws a protest like S.F.

I wish I could have stayed longer, but I needed to finish some stuff up here at the office.

[lkfmdc]

No city throws a protest like S.F.

You havent' been in Paris have you? I was stuck there during some sort of municipal transit union dispute

But the entire Chinese Olympic thing is turning into a bit of a fiasco isn't it

[Shaolin Wookie]

You havent' been in Paris have you? I was stuck there during some sort of municipal transit union dispute

But the entire Chinese Olympic thing is turning into a bit of a fiasco isn't it

It's still not as bad as Iraq. I think the solution is more troops in blue suits. If we send more troops, we can topple the resistence and bear the torch of freedom straight to the heart of the "hypothetical Baghdad". At the very least, we could send some money to them to put their grudges aside.

Hey, you don't think the economic stimulus checks had anything to do with this, do you?

[golden arhat]

At the opening of an envelope in china, there's a wushu demonstration. You can count on the opening ceremonies having it.

As a demonstration sport, me no think it gonna fly. Still no 100% for sure organization that is unified and so the IOC will not support it until everyone has their poop in a group.

And we know just how difficult it is to get a few kungfu teachers to sit in the same room with each other let alone be civil with their tongues and behaviours hahaha.
It's like a freaking religion for petes sake. Better to have monks than clerics in my opinion as far as that goes.

I'd like to see pankration come back...even if it is just mma. lol that would totally roxors.

but there's already lots of martial arts in the olympics anyway.

judo, tkd, boxing, wrestling, fencing, archery and other pseudo martial arts.
Do we really need performance wushu as an olympic sport? It's got it's own thing going on anyway. Let the money go to the more obscure sports like frilly whippy dancy tissue whips and somersaulting while throwing the ball. How else are those already rpiviledged kids going to make it through vasser without the olympic program?

....oh, i'm sorry, I'm not a bigsupporter of the olympics anymore ever since they brought in curling, I figure it's just a big sausage fest with tom boys.

I mean come on...Curling? WTF are they thinking???

i know
wtf


scottish obscure sport practised by no one that lives outside of the arctic circle involving stoness and brooms



or world wide martial art practised by millions



makes no sense to me