The Olympics will be starting soon. It's a grand sporting event, and it's supposed to represent, in a continuing line from the first Olympics, the pure spirit of sport and atheleticsm.

All the world's nations vie to host the Olympics. They feel it's an honour to do so, even though much work has to be done to prepare for it, and not necessarily with any financial return.








Each country has its politics, and many are using the Olympics to highlight the real and perceived inadeqacies in the host country. The recent problems with Tibet make China feel the world's outrage in the limelight of the Olympics. Protests are taking place daily, and the Olympic flame was extinguished in Paris.

Every participating nation, not surprisingly, has its own problems. Will it be right for demonstrators to interrupt American Olympians as a protest against American policies?

The Olympic Games themselves do not set policies. They are not like meetings of the IMF and the World Bank. These do make decisions that affect daily lives in different countries.

If criticism and protests of participating nations take their logical course, it's hard to imagine that the Olympics can ever be held.

Would you watch the Olympics?

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