Thats horrible! Yuck.



As Laura said...It seems to be taking off on its own anyway.

Unfortunately it's inevitable because Sport has such a huge effect on politics. Public morale and economic benefit for those in charge. The fact that people actually care more about sport than politics. Let's face it, if FIFA told the Scots they weren't allowed to compete as an individual nation anymore how quickly would the country vote for independence?

And the fact that sport gets so caught up in political matters means it is a huge tool when it comes to things such as human rights. Look at what UN sports sanctions have done in the past.

I too think it a disgrace that a country with this human rights record was even granted the games in the first place.

I think that might be a bit simplistic.
Isolating a country is the surest way to ensure it ignores the opinions of the rest of the world. Especially one which we need more than it needs us.

And the Olympic Games has been held in a lot of countries with just as bad human rights records (including the segregated US in the early half of last century, Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union and so on).

Also if you let athletes from countries compete, why wouldn't you let them host (wouldn't that be double-standards).
And if you don't let them compete, isn't that penalising individual competitors because of the policies of their government?

I was only trying to cause some annoyance, and oh wait I did.

I nearly didn't notice that for a second!

   f**k off  

Awesome day at the cycling world championships.

3 GOLD for GB with win's in the Men's team pursuit, the Women's individual pursuit and the Women's team sprint! Get in! 4 Gold and 1 silver for the champs so far and it's only day 2! woop woop!