International Olympic Committee

The 2008 Eted Games and the olympic events are at Peking always several months far. Nevertheless, the sad headlines of world and disturbing about China and these Olympic Games are everywhere. Last week the Chinese government retrieved that atmospheric pollution attained to Peking his higher level on the report as a storm of sand of the north envelopped the capital in dust, stifling pedestrians, and delay the flights.

Indeed, disgusting, polluted, the just air convinced to Peking the racer Haile Gebrselassie edthiopien to withdraw Peking marathon olympic. The door marathon record world-wide was a favorite one for a meddaille of now this summer and will converge now only on the 10,000 race of meter because of atmospheric pollution and its problems with the asthma.

The truth is that China was not effective in to improve the air quality to Peking. Consequently, these 2008 Eted Olympic Games will present athletes that participate carrying masks of coal with the trainers of team and the doctors close by with the medicines of ibuprofen and asthma. It should be now evident that to attribute the Olympic Games to a country with the extreme ecological problems as China was not in the better interest of health of any one of the 10,500 participants the athletes of international level.

What's more problems with atmospheric pollution, China limited the free speech of journalists and of internal dissidents seizing. Also, the headlines of world-wide press describe a possible potential boycott of the first ceremonies of these games of the summer by France and the other countries because of the government the recent Chinese measures harsh military officer against the showing to Tibet.

The this is now apparent that the 2008 Olympic Games became the hostage to the report of sad China on the environment and the human rights. Current the whole controversy is really the result of the International olympic Committee (IOC) the vote in 2001 that named Peking as the 2008 cities of host. Indeed, only two round ones of vote were necessary for Peking to obtain a majority of bulletins of other more than four vote cities of candidate. Peking received 56 votes in the second in round to 22 for Toronto, 18 for Paris, and 9 for Istanbul. Osaka, Japan, was eliminated in the first in round.

Of course, the doubtful report of the China on the human rights and the environment was well known in 2001. Then, we can ask the question of why China was attributed the honor to welcome the 2008 Olympic Games? A response to this question a little confusing was given after the reward announcement seven years ago by Francois Carrard, (the Administrator leader of the I. O. C.) . It said that the delegates did facing one to cancel the political problem in the matter of Peking: the human rights. '' Some people say, because of the problems of serious human rights, 'We close the door and say not'. The other manner is to bet on the frankness. Bet on the Fact that in to come it seven years, the frankness, the progress, and the development in a lot of sectors such will be that the position will be improved. We take the wager that of here seven years will see ourselves a lot of changes.'

Today, seven years later, it became evident that the IOC lost the wager. In the decision to neglect the report of human rights of China and the wager that the improvement would arrive by the time and the perspective of olympic sport, the IOC seems to be now accomplice with China in the continued compromise of these human rights of the basic country. Now that the 2008 Olympic Games opening ceremonies can be liable to a boycott, the position of basic IOC, (as asserted to many returns by IOC the President Jacques Rogge), is that the this is an organization of sports and incapable of done pressure on China or no other country on the political questions.

The fact is that the harsh measure of current government under the cover of olympic security did the human rights of sad China record become even worse. Also, it became apparent that while voting for the China to welcome these Olympic Games, the IOC chose a place that is in the violation of the spirit of his own olympic Charter. The states of Charter that sport must be "to the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to promote a calm corporation concerned with the preservation of human dignity".

In 2001, the summer reward the Olympic Games for Peking were a wager by the I. O. C. that China would be serious of clean his environment. The reward was also a wager on the promise by China to improve his report of sad human rights. The reality is that for these 2008 Olympic Games, the doubtful world-wide headlines serve now the notification that, as all bad Paris, the time came to pay.