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The Olympics have opened up a backdoor for the regime to massively upgrade its systems of population control and repression.
With the Olympic flame well on it’s way on the journey to Beijing, organizers are gearing up for the big event when the doors open on August 8th. - 24th 2008. With a little over 120 days to go until the gates open to the Olympic stadium, much will have to be done.
New scholarship on the ancient Olympics reminds Christians why Emperor Theodosius outlawed the event so many centuries ago.
They are little golden baubles that signify only athletic prowess, in disciplines as irrelevant to raw political muscle as gymnastics and beach volleyball.
Envisioned as a medium for inter-cultural communication
and peaceful democratic exchange, the Olympics have never failed to fulfil their purpose.
Beijing: Resurgent China on Friday opened the Olympics with volleys of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that wove ancient Chinese history with modern wizardry and aimed to draw a line under months of political controversy.
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Early public reaction to the logo, as measured by a poll on the BBC website, was largely negative: more than 80% of votes gave the logo the lowest possible rating.
The origin of the modern day Olympic Games has been traced to the prehistoric Greek festival on Mount Olympia, home of Zeus, the King of Greek gods.
THE Beijing Olympics, which started yesterday, is the 29th modern Olympiad. The Olympics itself is probably almost as old as mankind, or more aptly human civilisation. Archeological evidence points to the fact that the Olympics started in the valley of Olympia in southwest Greece from 776BC. It went on for more than 1,100 years without fail every four years. But Theodosius, the Roman emperor, decreed that the sporting events were pagan rituals and banned them in 393AD. It took another 1,503 years to revive the Olympics.
A Chinese security guard locks the gates at the Drum Tower in Beijing, following the murder of a US citizen at tourist attraction. Photograoph: Mark Ralston/AFP/Getty Images
The Logo of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay owes much of its inspiration to the traditional concept of "fire phoenix", and presents the image of two runners holding the Olympic Flame high.
