The sportsmen/women shouldn’t be made to boycott the games or suffer in any way. They have trained hard and deserve a chance to compete on an international platform. However everyone should realise that what the Chinese Communist Party are doing to their people is totally against the Olympic Games Charter. For example;
Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion,politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic Movement.
I would say the torture and organ harvesting known to be taking place on an almost daily basis to Falun Gong practitioners, the persecution of Tibetans and the oppression of other religions and culture within their borders is discrimination at the highest level. If you consider that of the millions of people who practiced Falun Gong from all walks of life, prior to the start of the persecution, perhaps there were some who were Olympic sportsmen, who according to the CCP don’t have a right to live, let alone compete in the games. It was said by the CCP that to host the games would likely improve the welfare of the Chinese people but the CCP would be the only ones to gain if no protest were to be made. As such the International Olympic Games Committee should have moved the games to an alternative venue to avoid the conflict.
