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Posted by Scott Tribe on August 13, 2008, at 1:30 pm |
This story in the Globe talks about how after 4 days Canada has no medals yet at the Beijing Olympics, and there are already grumblings amongst Canadian athletes about how little support they get from the government with regards to funding as compared to other countries.
A few thoughts on this:
1) It’s still early in the Games – there is still a chance the medals will come and that the goal of 16 medals is met.
2) Corporate sponsorship in this country lags just as badly, if not worse then government funding does, in my view.
I think obviously everyone wants our athletes to do well.. but if [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on August 9, 2008, at 8:33 pm |
While watching all this rain and thunder and lightning occur (as Matthew over at Pample the Moose observed, I didn’t know Ontario had a monsoon season), I thought I’d ask if anyone’s interested or excited in watching the Olympics.
For myself personally, I don’t know if it’s the time zone difference, or the bad publicity surrounding the games (ie. Tibet, ridiculous air pollution, or China going back on its promises and stifling freedom to access sites they may not necessarily like politically), or getting depressed reading some Canadian sports journalists saying there should be low expectations for the Canadian team and its medal haul, but I’m really not into [...]
Posted by Scott Tribe on March 23, 2008, at 2:53 pm |
As we see more news stories today of China sending in more troops to try and quell Tibetans, and we also see evidence that they are doing a preventative crackdown on other minority groups in order to stop them from joining in on the protests, I think I’ve come to a personal decision on my earlier question about whether Canada needs to do to show China we disapprove of their behaviour. I believe we now do have to send a signal.
A boycott of the Opening Ceremonies is at least one thing we can do – the European Union has talked about doing this – but if the repression [...]
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