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Originally Posted by LiberLibri
Shoud I have written "integrity" with quotation marks? Chinese society today is full of inequalities and difficulties besides the minority problems; the average income in coastal area is as twenty times higher as that of inland. But what is impotant for the authority is the "image" of integrity, not the real one. Through Beijing Olympic, the audience all over the world would get the impression that China is an integral and powerful State. That is the aim.
Your assertion seems too naive. IOC is not a public agency but a private organisation, which earns from the sponsorship and advertisements. Yes the ideal is precious and important, but it has little effect on IOC.
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It's not about being naive, it's about being coherent. I know that money, economic deals with sponsors and so on are the real engine behind these events (Olympics, World Cup, whatever), but it's sad to see that even when the contradiction is so evident like in this case, there's still a lot of people that react as if it wasn't that much of a big deal. :\