Beijing 2008, or: who else isn't watching?

[Rhyfelwyr]

90% of Olympic sports would bore me to sleep. From all the fuss China's making, you would think they're hosting the World Cup. I don't hear of people rushing home from work to watch the javelin event. I don't see pubs filling up because everyone wants to see a 400m relay. I don't see huge screens being put up all over the place because everyone wants to see how far someone can throw a discuss. And I don't see many children playing Olympic sports all day because they want to be like their Olypmic heroes.

Haha, China's dicatators have got conned into spending billions because they think the whole western world is watching how great their nation is.

I heard they've got so desperate they're getting volunteers to fill up the empty stands.

[Meneldil]

Haha, China's dicatators have got conned into spending billions because they think the whole western world is watching how great their nation is.

That's the funny part yeah. They're doing all that crap to show the rest of the world how great China is, yet they look like pathetic monkeys.

[Adrian II]

They're doing all that crap to show the rest of the world how great China is, yet they look like pathetic monkeys.

If by 'pathetic monkeys' you mean the regime and its sports and business cronies, I totally agree. My take on Chinese people in general however is totally different. I hope my posts are clear as to the distinction.

[yesdachi]

I wonder…

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Will there be a recall on the medals due to lead based paint concerns?

[InsaneApache]

I heard that Albert Speer Junr. built the stadium. A triumph of the will indeed!*

An ITN journo was jumped by the Sturmabteilung and thrown into the back of a van, where they beat his hands. That'll teach the nosey bugger...

A view from the Times...

These people: they jump in a pool, they swim, sometimes they dive, or they do both. Good on 'em, if it's what they want to do: even I can see the achievement in being the fastest in the world, if that is your ambition. But must we all join in the pretence that the shenanigans in Beijing are important in any way for the rest of the country; that the Games tell us anything of any consequence about humanity, about ourselves, about our nation?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/com...cle4517692.ece

*No thread is complete without a Godwin or two.

[LittleGrizzly]

Haha, China's dicatators have got conned into spending billions because they think the whole western world is watching how great their nation is.

Its our way of slowing down chinese growth, were going to throw sporting events at them until the bankrupt themselves showing us how developed they are