While China's Communist Government officials may rant, rave and scream about the TV leak of its opening ceremony and seek revenge, it has only itself to blame for the growing degradation of its image and credibility on the global stage and lack of trust or support from the foreign media.
In the meantime let us sit back and enjoy the Beijing 2008 Shame Games, the most expensive games in history (provided the dust stays in the West).
The 2008 Beijing Olympics will be remembered as the Games that destroyed the integrity of the Olympic Spirit. Staged in an atmosphere of deceit, paranoia and pollution, the fun-filled freedom enjoyed in the preceding Games will be just a distant memory of what was supposed to be. The 2008 Beijing Olympics will go down in history as the "fun free" or "killjoy Games" compliments of the Chinese Communist Party and China's "anti-fun police".
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As for the Olympics of the future?
Hopefully, London will hold the promise of a return to the true Olympic Spirit.
First, however, the IOC must remove the cancer of 2008.
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