Athletes Silenced On Chinese Government

Filed under:Culture War,General — posted by Q Ball on 2/10/2008 @ 8:29 pm

British athletes have been asked to sign a contract stating they will not criticize the communist government if selected to go to the Olympics.

The move – which raises the spectre of the order given to the England football team to give a Nazi salute in Berlin in 1938 – immediately provoked a storm of protest.

I couldn’t agree more. My only question is: Why was China selected to host at all?

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