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I completely agree with all of this, I just think that boycotting now achieves nothing. They're already got the Olympics and every Olympic dollar that goes with that.
China should have never, ever gotten the Olympics. I get why they did it. They wanted an in to the Chinese market and they probably hoped that it would help the country strive to become more democratic. The latter being the most naive idea I've ever heard of.
But, the second the Olympics were given to China, boycotting would have only affected the athletes who work their whole lives towards these events.
As to Bush, Sarkozy and whatever Canadian representative was there... well, we have trade relations with China. Whether they show up or not for a sporting event won't change the fact that we already spend a lot of money in China.
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