regarding the olympics and politics:
DAVE ZIRIN, edgeofsports@gmail.com, http://www.edgeofsports.com
Sportswriter Zirin's latest book is "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports." He just wrote the piece "China's Olympic Trials," which states: "This is the Olympics the West wanted: games where the grandest prize is not a gold medal but a glittering entree to China's seemingly endless army of potential consumers. This is the reason that George W. Bush will attend the opening ceremonies, the first U.S. President to do so on foreign soil, and that in March, mere days before the crackdown in Tibet, Condoleezza Rice, laughably, took China off the State Department's list of nations that abuse human rights."
regarding the olympics and politics:
DAVE ZIRIN, edgeofsports@gmail.com, http://www.edgeofsports.com
Sportswriter Zirin's latest book is "Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics and Promise of Sports." He just wrote the piece "China's Olympic Trials," which states: "This is the Olympics the West wanted: games where the grandest prize is not a gold medal but a glittering entree to China's seemingly endless army of potential consumers. This is the reason that George W. Bush will attend the opening ceremonies, the first U.S. President to do so on foreign soil, and that in March, mere days before the crackdown in Tibet, Condoleezza Rice, laughably, took China off the State Department's list of nations that abuse human rights."
