A friend from high school has kept in touch with me and has asked me what we Americans have to say about the Olypics being held in Beijing.

She says the Japanese are worried about the food quality (poisoning, malnutrition - past games have ended with foul play and players went to the hospital). She says the Japanese players couldn't bring their own food and medicine into China, either.

Seeing as how I have little imput myself on the matter and the topic search didn't turn up but a few posts here, I figured I'd start a new thread for those who do have an opinion to let it rip.

2/25/2008 9:03:06 AM

i thought this was going to be a pr0n thread

[Edited on February 25, 2008 at 9:04 AM. Reason : also, dont forget the distention between japan and china]

2/25/2008 9:03:49 AM

this thread should have been made in the lounge

commence flaming and/or random japanese pr0n

2/25/2008 9:05:09 AM

Oh well.

2/25/2008 9:10:56 AM

the Olympics suck because of the unbelievable extent to which corporate sponsorship has infiltrated a once noble set of games

China sucks because it is a flagrant violator of human rights

suck times suck equals suck squared

2/25/2008 9:49:21 AM

bttt

2/26/2008 7:25:27 AM

this tops my concerns at the current moment. it's been on my mind a lot.

2/26/2008 7:36:36 AM

SOME OF YOU know SO MUCH that you should be teachers. it's a shame to see such knowledge go to waste on the wolfweb, when it could be going to corrupt our kids minds and make them hate their country at age 5

as for this american's POV:

doesn't matter to me, i dont remember ever seeing much about the culture of the place where the games were held. and since they're all events that have international rules and courts and balls and lines and etc etc etc, then it all kinda looks the same. does the hosting country get to throw in an event that reflects its culture or anything, am i missing something?

if not, its all the same shit, just in different places. only matters to the people who can go. which, actually, i'd love to go, but it seems like it takes weeks and thats a lot of vacation, and i bet every hotel within 100 miles has been booked since they announced the location

so i'm guessing it easily would cost thousands to go out there for 2 weeks and see the events you wanted to (assuming you could even watch them all since it seems they happen at the same time i think)

so long story short, i think the only way it matters is if you actually go, and i think only retired people have a realistic opportunity at going and being able to enjoy it to the fullest.

2/26/2008 7:50:21 AM

I read an article that the USOC was going to ship our own food over to China for the duration of the games

2/26/2008 8:44:09 AM

our athletes will be roided up and ready to go anyway

its a cheat feast nowadays. Does it really matter where it happens?

2/26/2008 9:09:31 AM

bttt

A couple more responses to sanitize and I'll have a nice informative response.

2/26/2008 6:57:18 PM

a lot of unnecessary red tape

2/26/2008 6:59:01 PM