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The Beijing Winter Olympics: High stakes for China

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Isn't Boycotting, Is Not Doing a Sporting Boycot?

There are going to be a number of diplomatic boycots at these games. Some western countries have announced that they are banning senior officials from attending. So the us. Isn't boycotting, is not doing a sporting boycot of these games. We should be very wary of discarding that known potential without careful reflection. Its very damaging to pickur sporting parties predicated on transient political conditions. Even in trench systems,. sport being a sort of competitor here, its not. It's a collaborator and actually gets a dancite closer to shining a light on some of these issues than most jobbing politics.

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