Sports Headlines and Commentary
August 19th, 2008 — Olympics
Team USA’s Schierholtz cheap shots Yang Yang of China
In yesterday’s game against China, USA Nate Schierholtz bowled over the Chinese catcher on the way into home. You may be thinking: “yea so what?” Well the problem with the play is that there was no play at the plate. The catcher was no even on the base path.
August 19th, 2008 — Olympics
IOC requests info on protest controls
One week to the closing ceremonies, and suddenly the IOC is worried about how the protestors WERE treated? Clueless jackasses.
IOC spokeswoman Giselle Davies said Monday that the group requested the information Friday in a letter sent via Beijing Olympic organizers but had received no response.
You sent it on Monday. If the Post Office there is like most Post Offices it won’t get there until next Monday.
“It’s true that we do sit here with the question put by the parties … not answered,” Davies said. “From the IOC perspective, we would like to see these answered very much and we encourage as much transparency as possible on this matter.”
Hours later, China’s state-run news agency, Xinhua, reported that police had received 77 protest applications involving 149 people. Police said 74 of the requests had been voluntarily withdrawn after the disputes were resolved. Two other applications required revisions and one was rejected for unknown reasons, the news agency said.
Well there is your response. It’s as lame as you pretending to actually care about the abuses in China. If you really cared you would have not gone in the first place.
Not the first time the IOC has been stupid: IOC sides with China
Some people did get permits to protest AFTER the games are over. Wang Wenjin was turned down the first time, because his group was not registered in MAINLAND China — only he was registered as he was there — . he and his group are from Hong Kong. Hmmm
He then returned with his protestors and all went through the process again.
After about 90 minutes, Wang and his group left the building to get something to eat. He said the authorities had asked each of them to write out a lengthy application letter stating the objectives of their protest, the number and identities of participants, the protest location and any expected protest routes, and the slogans and banners that would be used.
“We did all that, and then the officials said they wanted more,” Wang said.
Don’t bureaucrats always want more blood, err paperwork?
After dinner, Wang returned. He was told that if the application were approved, he would be able to protest on Aug. 26 or 27, after the Olympics are over.
“What’s the point of that?” Wang fumed. “These so-called ‘protest zones’ are a kind of show, to show a good image to the outside world. But they use all kinds of excuses to decline all requests.”
Don’t worry Mr Wang, we all know the truth about China. They are only fooling themselves.
August 18th, 2008 — Olympics
First the Chi-coms lied about the age of their Gymnists. Now they are intentionally throwing at USA Batsmen in the China V USA Baseball game. Sadly the USA has responded with some untoward tactics. One player went out of the base path to run down a Chinese catcher who did not even have the ball. Disgusting on both sides.
August 2nd, 2008 — Olympics
Once again the IOC has shown they are totally clue-less about much of anything. Like all do-gooder-lefty types they are so arrogant as to believe they can change the world with talk, and rewarding evil.
Olympic chief Jacques Rogge said Saturday no deal had been cut with China to allow Internet censorship during the Games, as crowds swarmed parts of Beijing to glimpse a spectacular fireworks show.
With just six days to go before the Games, Rogge made his first public statement on the furore over the restrictions on Internet access for foreign reporters covering the Games, but stopped short of making an apology.
The IOC said that bringing the Olympics to China would help the Chinese people, it would get the Chinese Government to see the error of it’s ways — the few the liberals see, that is — , and it would be a free and unfettered event without issues or nastiness.
The Olympic Games have become the occasion for a broad crackdown against dissidents, gadflies and malcontents this summer. Although human rights activists say they have no accurate estimate of how many people have been imprisoned, they believe the figure to be in the thousands.
The crackdown comes seven years after the secretary general of the Beijing Olympic Bid Committee declared that staging the Games in the Chinese capital would “not only promote our economy but also enhance all social conditions, including education, health and human rights.”
Wrong! Again, they are wrong. Typical liberals, Kumbayah! and the world is saved. It doesn’t work that way, dummies.
“I am not going to make an apology for something that the IOC is not responsible for. We are not running the Internet in China,” Rogge said.
Funny that is not their usual attitude. Just more proof they are clue-less idiots.
It’s clear the IOC only went to China to stick their finger in the eye of the US; just as the did when the sent the Olympics to the USSR. Most people alive today do not remember when the IOC sent the Olympics to Berlin during the reign of Adolf Hitler.
In every case they told the world they were the champion of the oppressed, and they would make things better wherever they went. It didn’t turn out that way in ANY of the places UNTIL America — with the help of brave allies — stepped in and fixed the issues.
The brilliant negotiators at the IOC — that’s sarcasm — were able to get the Chinese to agree to open the Internet to the Chinese. Oh wait, no they didn’t.
They did however succeed in getting the to “open” the Internet to cause celebre sites like Amnesty International, liberal — and IOC — friendly sites like the BBC, and Deutsche Well. Both of the sites have carried news about China that the Chinese don’t like, but it’s been very tame and generally is not very deep.
No one is sure who will be able to access those sites, I am assuming those in the Olympic Village; unless they are Chinese or they are from countries smart enough to request blocking of their athletes connections. The “free and unfettered” access that was promised WHEN THE OLYMPICS WAS AWARDED TO THEM 8 YEARS AGO.
The issue had caused a major stir days before the start of the Aug. 8-24 Olympics with IOC officials insisting there would be no censorship and Beijing Games Organising Committee (BOCOG) saying sensitive sites would remain blocked by the Communist authorities.
Although Internet access will be relatively free for reporters for the period of the Games, it is still tightly controlled for the rest of the country.
Sites related to spiritual movement Falun Gong, and other issues that are frowned on, are regularly blocked. Some U.S. newspaper blogs were also blocked.
Yes, the IOC is as inept, and stupid as is the UN.
“We can only encourage moving towards that openness and transparency.”
That’s not what they said 8 years ago. Typical liberals, the reward those that hate America, and then spin-spin-spin their way out of the issue when they are shown to have been used by their benefactors.
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