Bejing Olympics News - 1st April 2008 - 1

Pro-Tibet supporters repeat call for Beijing Olympic boycott
Euronews.net - Lyon,France
... around the world where pro-Tibet supporters and monks demonstrated outside Chinese embassies to repeat calls for a boycott of the Beijing Olympics. ...

US Olympic Committee and GE Announce Research Partnership to ...
FOXBusiness - USA
For the Beijing Olympic Games, the Henry Ford investigators want to assess whether changes in ligaments, cartilage and muscle that are seen before the ...

Editorial: Beijing Olympics
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The Olympics never should have been awarded to Beijing. A boycott by only some countries, though, wouldn't hurt China as much as it would the athletes who ...

China says Olympics protests will offend public
Guardian - UK
BEIJING, April 1 (Reuters) - Protesters seeking to upset the Beijing Olympics will only offend China's Games-loving citizens, the top newspaper said on ...

Pelosi Suggests Bush Skip Olympic Opener
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday that President Bush should consider boycotting the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics ...

Mark Foster's Beijing Olympics dream
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom

Tibet unrest: A PR disaster for Beijing
Inquirer.net - Philippines
MANILA, Philippines—There is no question that the unrest in Tibet is hurting the Chinese government and giving organizers of this year’s Beijing Olympics ...

Triano, Rautins regret Moscow boycott
Globe and Mail - Canada
Now, amid rumblings about boycotts of this summer's Beijing Olympics, both say they believe skipping Moscow may have been the wrong call. ...

Profit from the 2008 Beijing Olympics
By Today's Financial News
Baltimore – (TFN): The 85000-mile relay that will culminate with the lighting of the Olympic torch got underway March 24. The torch will pass through five continents and 20 countries on its way to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. ...

Why Sports Fans should Boycott the 2008 Beijing Olympics
By Derek Braid(Derek Braid)
I refuse to support the Olympics in Beijing in 2008 for these reasons and more. More: Protests in Tibet leave nearly 100 dead. China has declared a "people's war" of security and propaganda against support for the Dalai Lama, ...