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Even as the city of Beijing painted its grass green earlier this year to impress visiting inspectors of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), 10,000 members of the Falun Gong religious movement wasted in prisons for the crime of practicing their beliefs. One hundred fifty of the movement’s leaders have already died in police custody. Meanwhile, China continues to try its citizens in lightning-fast court proceedings, executing them for minor offenses like tax evasion and afterwards harvesting their organs without donor consent. Forced labor is common. Tibetans remain oppressed. And hitting closer to home, the Chinese...
Each of these wrongs should be roundly condemned, and each provides an independent justification for denying Beijing the Olympic Games. The IOC has a unique opportunity to show China that disregard for human rights and international law is unacceptable, and it should not squander the opportunity...
...Sydney Olympics. Benicio Del Toro is a conflicted, street-smart International Olympic Committee official who tries and fails to deal with the problem. Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Olympic gymnast who loses her gold medal after testing positive for banned substances found in common vitamin supplements. Michael Douglas is IOC Chair Juan Antonio Samaranch, who is too busy accepting bribes from various cities that want the games to fix anything...
...mentioned in my last letter, with Marion Jones and Maurice Greene winning the 100-meter sprints. The next big result, as you might have heard, was C. J. Hunter's. He's the injured shot putter who's much better known as Marion's husband. Well, according to the IOC, he had tested positive for steroids five times recently, once in a meet and four times out of competition. Any other week, any other wife, this is just the latest pathetic drug case. But C. J. being who he is and this happening when it did, right away...
...wasn't the only case that brought tears, either. Did you hear about the 16-year-old Romanian gymnast Andrea Raducan? She had to give back a gold medal because she took cold medicine for the sniffles - medicine a coach had given her. "We have applied the law," said IOC director general Fran?ois Carrard. "In the fight against doping we have to be tough and refrain from emotions and feelings." Sometimes that's hard...