The Olympic is an international multi-competitive sport event which happens every four years. It is the time that people from all over the world come together in one place, cheer, and compete for their respective countries. Many people like myself are excited about this year’s Olympics. However, because of political complications and issues surrounding this event, I feel this year’s Olympics will be the least exciting one.
China, one of the fastest growing nation and one of the severe human right violators, is the host of the 2008 summer Olympics. Activists from all over the world are pressuring world leaders and athletes to boycott the Olympics because of China’s wrongdoings. At the same time, they want China to take action on various issues such as the situation in Darfur and most importantly, the liberation of Tibet. While I agree that China needs to do something about these issues, however, activists must be able to separate politics and sports. They should not use this event as a tool to further their causes.
As an activist myself, sports are the way to unite the people from all over the world. Together, they use sports as icebreakers to discuss more serious and complicated matters. Some radical activists and protestors who decided to distract the Olympic torch relay are out of their minds. Their actions are inappropriate. These individuals have ruined the spirit of the sports. Instead of uniting the people, they instead are dividing the people. In U.S, for example, Americans are debating whether or not the government should boycott the Olympics! Are you crazy?
If activists want China and other countries to take actions on issues like genocide, they have to find a different way, a diplomatic approach. What they are doing right now is ridiculous and annoying. The media are starting to lose interest in covering these distracted torch relays and other kinds distraction. As a young woman who loves sports and cares about human rights, for this one, I am going to ask the radical activists to leave the Beijing Olympics alone! This is not the way to get the message across. Let the athletes compete while pushing these human right issues through diplomatic approaches.
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