“There’s nothing to ‘prove’ at this point; 2008 was a ‘coming out’ party and all this one does is confirm what we’ve known for the last decade,” Amanda Shuman, a China researcher at the University of Freiburg, wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
IOC President Thomas Bach called Beijing a “safe choice.” China spent more than $40 billion organizing the 2008 Olympics. The authoritarian state doesn’t need voter approval to proceed. Ai was jailed in 2011 in China on unspecified charges and how lives in exile in Portugal. The Bird’s Nest will again host the opening ceremony on Feb. 4.
Changes that affect 2022 began a month after the 2008 Olympics ended when the global financial crisis hit world economies. China fared better than most, which — coupled with the Olympics — increased its confidence. This also coincides with the rise of Xi Jinping, who headed the 2008 Olympics and was named General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in 2012.
Winter what?!?
China isnt going to change. Olympic commitee will also never stop taking bribes
Don’t ever believe China!!
The Beijing olympics should be boycotted.
There is no issue of rights in China. The Chinese citizens do exactly as told. No problem.
So boycott it?
Also, that's when Russia choose to invade Georgia, when the world was distracted. What are the odds Russia could invade another country again during the Olympics?
The more commas in the amount contributed to the IOC the more they're willing to turn a blind eye to. After 100 years they don't even pretend it's about sport anymore.
Another reminder to , for the sake of accurate, full and fake reporting: US State Department Lawyers after professional scrutiny concluded: “Insufficient Evidence to Prove Genocide in China'.
A little reminder to United Nation: ETIM is a terrorist organisation.
IOC is one of the most corrupt organizations in this world
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