Why is this years Olympics so horrible? ?

Question

I was struggling with a better term than horrible, but horrible is what this years olympics have been. From the start, this years games have been plagued with controversy. More so than usual. First we had the Tibet/political issues, then we had the Milli Vanilli lip syncing, then we had the age cheating. Everyday we hear about are the bad judges, and bad calls. We have doping. We have athletes throwing medals around. The whole thing just looks a huge multi-billion dollar joke. The money spent here just seems like such a waste. I don't know about you, but I would have rather seen the games cancelled altogether and the billions of dollars spent on these "games" go towards the victims of the 2004 tsunami, or ending hunger in some undeveloped country. Obviously that will never happen. But leading back to my question, why are they so bad this year?

Answer 1

How about 8 million dollars for Sichuan Earthquake victims? Adding 250K from the US basketball team to raise charity for the victims.

The bad stuff gets all over the news yet the caring and courteous gets thrown out. Shame on the media.

[ziggy] Before you bad-mouth about the smog; here's something that you won't get from your propaganda

Cycling and the first taste of the air:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/10/sports...

Gebrselassie regrets opting out of marathon

http://uk.reuters.com/article/reutersCom...

Women's Marathon and the air:

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-N...

Human Rights:

Yes yes yes China has bad human rights and is pretty much why Western nations keeps yapping on how bad China are but did you know that China's economic growth; educational quality; technological innovation; environmental investment (China invests way more than the U.S. does toward sustainable energy research); and hipness is better than all Western nation.

Answer 2

Your watching NBC?

Apart from the Tibet situation, lip syncing. ie cosmetic issues have always played a part in the games. In 96 they bussed the homeless out of Atlanta for crying out loud. As for the age of Chinese athletes, that seems to be brought up only when they win. but somehow everyone seems to forget that chinese on average are smaller than Caucasians.

As for money being spent elsewhere, it could but I highly doubt that it would simply be given to charities.

Answer 3

Because they are being held in a country that has no regards for human rights, more smog than anyone thought possible, and a win at all costs attitude. The IOC  should have never awarded China the Olympics and hopefully never will again.  

Answer 4

It seems like the US media try to make China look bad from the very beginning. Sad... They only report the negative news in China to the people here. China actually has done a lot of good things in this Olympics, but they never mention those positive stuff.  very bias. You should go to some other countries' websites and you will have a different feel.  Don't just believe everything the US media says.

Answer 5

The only reason that people, excuse me, Americans are complaining about age and judge calls are because they aren't getting golds. If U.S. gymnastics and diving were sweeping you won't hear **** about any of this.  

Answer 6

Besides the altered fireworks or lip synching children, there's actually nothing else to complain about except for the underaged Chinese athletes.

The world can deal with human rights violations, admonish those that were disqualified for cheating and worry about the aftermath of faulty judging after the games are done.  Now is not the time because it's still going on and hopefully the athletes will do their best to continue representing their respective countries.  After Sunday, everyone will have a chance to vent their frustrations when the Olympic Torch is extinguished.

In all of the "clouds" surrounding the Olympic Games, at least there are humanitarians helping out China's earthquake victims as well as the World uniting together to compete in a sporting event while still voicing their opinions in a mature manner to not distract from the games.