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I'm not sure if that was a joke or not, but it's why the snowball rolled downhill from me staying up too late to watch the Olympics to reverting to my original personal boycott plans.
I decided to be cool and not base my opinion of the Olympics on China's government as a whole. But things related to the Olympics were fair game. So it all started with the contest winning singer being too ugly for prime time. Why bother to have a contest then? Cover-up, scandalous. Then the 24 ethnic kids during the same ceremony were also fakes. Ugh.
Gets worse. The Chinese female gymnast gold medalist is an underage cheat with China's complicity.
Last straw for me: There are 3 official protest zones. They're probably in the hinterlands (so far, no different than current America, to our shame) ... but you can apply for a permit to protest the Olympics. Except, in the immortal words of Admiral Akbar ... It's A Trap! No permits are ever granted and almost every applicant is sentenced to years in a re-education camp.
Sorry, my disgust overflows. I already ranted about the moral complicity of everyone involved, from the IOC officials down to the Athletes themselves. But as for me, I'm not even a Neilson family of one ... but I had to look away.
So I'm relieved the closing ceremonies sucked. But I'm sad I didn't get to see any diving. Oh well, there's always London.
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