Appropriate behavior for US Olympics team member wearing masks upon arriving at Beijing Olympics?

Question

Appropriate behavior for US Olympics team member wearing masks upon arriving at Beijing Olympics?

Answer 1

Only Hannibal Lecter is allowed to wear masks like that.

Answer 2

retarded american seriously needs a life.whats he gonna complain about now that olympics are over?maybe we will get lucky and he kills himself

Answer 3

Of course it's appropriate. On any given day in Bejing Even the Chinese citizens even wear them because the air can be really bad times.

How can doing something the Chinese have been doing themselves for years in Bejing be inappropriate?

Answer 4

no never it was dumb and showed disrepect - how can a nation expect rspect when they give none  - shame

Answer 5

I think they should be there first before deciding whether it is necessary to wear a mask instead of prejudging like that.

Answer 6

why wouldn't it be appropriate? China is polluted. Very very polluted. end of story. Our athletes should never have competed in the games in China in the first place. A horrible government like that never deserved or earned the right to have the games.  

Answer 7

As usual, many Americans, including some on this board, only get their news from American media, which unfortunately are so biased against China.  China is polluted, yes more most other big cities in the world.  But how many big cities in the world has 15 million residents?

And it's not as if breathing Beijing air for 20 days will kill them.  Otherwise there will be no-one living in Beijing or whole of China that is.

The athletes wore masks because they were worried.  But after a while there, nobody wore masks anymore, as they saw first hand that the media was full of it.  Nobody wore masks during opening ceremony, or closing ceremony, and nobody on the street wore masks.

Seriously some people believe anything they see on TV.  Pathetic how today people cannot think for themselves and rely on the media to spoon feed them with biased information and propaganda.

Answer 8

This was making a political statement and War Mongering.If this was done to them they would be screaming Terrorist.

Answer 9

What is your question?

Answer 10

It was about as much of a dig against the chinese gov't as they could do without risking getting kicked out of the country....I wish Phelps had rolled out some "Free Tibet" banner or something after his last gold medal ceremony....who cares if they kick him out of the country after winning 8 gold medals, yeah?