The song poignantly asks: “Can you hold an international track meet, when you got a labor camp right down the street? Can you sponsor the Olympics in 08, when you still imprison people for their faith?”
At the Beijing Olympics, China's women’s gymnastics team won its first ever gold medal in the team event and might win several more individual gold medals. For them, this should be a very joyful time. However, I have always been worried about these young girls.
I remember that a high ranking intelligence official from a western country once said that if you have a hard time judging the significance of an event, you should look at the resources the host has mobilized for it.
The Chinese Communist regime repressed news of a tragic fall that left the lead dancer for the opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games paralyzed from the waist down.
Michael Phelps swam his way into sporting immortality on Sunday by winning his eighth gold medal at the Beijing Olympics.
The Coalition to Investigate the Persecution of Falun Gong in China (CIPFG) handed in the results of the Global Million Signatures Campaign to the Swiss Government.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is asking journalists and athletes to trust the Beijing official figures on air quality and trust that it is in journalists’ and athletes’ best interests not to know the current rate of pollution in the Chinese capital.
Ultra-nationalist Chinese fans are reported to be booing rival competitors at recent Olympic events. Similar incidents over the years have sometimes escalated to violence.
Western media recently publicised the 21 instructions for Olympic reporting issued to their Chinese counterparts by the Beijing propaganda bureau.
Michael Phelps equalled fellow American swimmer Mark Spitz's 1972 record of seven golds in one Olympics