Jimmie on August 19th, 2008

…stays in China, especially gold medals, which the Chinese want so much they’re willing to cheat their heads off to get them.
Said cheating includes fielding a gymnastics team full of toddlers. How do we know that? Well, that’s what their passports, issued by the ever so honest Chinese government says. How could it be otherwise?
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Jimmie on July 31st, 2008

Apparently, Captain Renault works for the International Olympic Committee.

BEIJING (Reuters) – The media should have been told they would not have total Internet freedom before arriving for the Beijing Olympics, a senior IOC official said on Thursday, as rights groups piled criticism on both the IOC and host China.
As the row over censorship continued, International [...]

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Luckily, the IOC is a famously neutral and non-political body capable of dispensing the privelege of hosting the Olympics to places that hold the best interests of the athletes at heart and do much to foster the spirit of international competition (such at the Tibetan Monk Beatdown and the Protestor Skeet Shoot). I say [...]

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