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Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall? 2 April 2008 by Bob The issue of the internet and China is - naturally! - a hot topic in the blogosphere. Bob has been hoping to tackle this for some time, and so was pleased to see the IOC raise the issue this week (via BBC): “Inspectors from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said China was obliged under its Games contract to provide journalists with web access. The IOC’s Kevan Gosper said there was concern that the web had been blocked during recent unrest in Tibet. He said this could not happen during the Games. IOC inspectors are on a final visit to Beijing before the August Games begin.” The Great Firewall The Chinese government have a very effective system of blocking websites, censoring content and enforcing self-censorship by internet companies. These methods allow the CCP to effectively road-block the information superhighway. This is the Great Firewall. Many sites that have had long-term blocks (Wikipedia has a list) include the BBC (any URL with BBC.news), Wikipedia (Chinese version) and almost any human rights sites you care to mention (in fact an editor at the New Internationalist, an outspoken publication campaigning on issues including human rights, once confessed to Bob that they were a little offended not to be blocked in the PRC). Meanwhile internet firms (read: Google or Yahoo) desperate for a slice of the huge (and rapidly growing) have been only too happy to self-censor, or even provide sensitive personal information to the Chinese authorities, in exchange for access to trade in China. The high-profile case where Yahoo helped put Shi Tao in prison for 10 years by revealing his private emails to the CCP (and then lying about it) is well covered by Andrew Li - this is his special subject, so read up more about the GFW here too. The IOC hope that the Olympics will herald change in China, but surely taking on the Great Firewall is too much? Promising signs There have been reports this year of previously blocked sites being opened up, including; the BBC News, blogspot, and Wikipedia. However access seems to fluctuate, and since the recent protests in/about Tibet sites like no video have been offline or highly regulated. Athletes blogs The IOC’s stance is backed up by their commitment to allow athletes to blog, for the first time, about the Olympics. As Imagethief points out: “That’ll be a lot of blogs to police, and one person’s “personal opinion or reflection” is another’s political agitprop”. Will the Great Firewall stand up to this pressure, or will it soon be an historic relic, like it’s name sake? ―――――――――――――――――― http://beijingolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2008/04/02/can-the-olympics-knock-down-the-great-firewall/
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时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?可以看看这篇BBC的文章http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/4587622.stm
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不醉千秋醉千帐 赏 2008-07-20#5
768 $0.00 Beijing starts car ban in Olympics clean-air driveBeijing to Launch Olympic Odd-Even Car Ban in JulyBEIJING (AFP) ― Beijing residents enjoyed the novelty of congestion-free streets Sunday as the city launched strict driving curbs to rein its notorious air pollution and traffic for the Olympics.Traffic on the capital's normally bustling roads was noticeably light, even for a weekend, amid the new rules which ban cars with odd- and even-numbered licence plates from the roads on alternate days."It's great. It's like driving in the middle of the night. This will be a big help for the Olympics," attorney Fan Wenling said as she climbed into her car for a trip to her office.The rules, in effect until September 20, are part of a wider campaign to try to clear the air in Beijing, which is typically wrapped in acrid smog.However, despite the driving curbs a familiar light haze hung over the city of 17 million Sunday morning, illustrating Beijing's continued challenge keeping its air clean amid spiralling vehicle and industrial emissions.The largest source of pollution is believed to be the emissions from the city's 3.3 million vehicles, whose ranks swell by an estimated 1,000 per day as increasingly affluent Beijing residents can afford the luxury of their own car.Beijing conducted a four-day test of similar driving restrictions last August but the hazy conditions persisted during the trial.International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge warned last year that poor air quality during the August 8-24 Games could result in the suspension of some events, particularly endurance races such as the marathon.Some of the 10,000 athletes due in Beijing for the Games also have expressed health fears.The new measures will not be truly tested until Monday, when the city's millions of commuters take to the roads under the new regime.The city on Saturday opened three new subway lines built as part of a pre-Olympic infrastructure upgrade that are expected to absorb an increase in daily ridership to 21 million passengers trips from the usual 16 million, due to the curbs.Unlike last year's trial, however, this time authorities are taking other steps including shutting down polluting industries in the region around Beijing and halting construction in the city.Businesses also are being pressured to adjust their working hours to cut down on rush-hour gridlock.Only cars with even-numbered licence plates were allowed on the streets Sunday, and motorcycle police could be seen at key intersections watching the traffic.Motorists face a fine of 100 yuan (14 dollars) for driving on the wrong day, according to the city's transportation bureau.Despite rising affluence in Beijing, a 100-yuan fine remains a significant deterrent for many in China, where annual incomes remain far lower than those in developed countries.The restrictions will not apply to taxis, and some cab drivers welcomed the chance to make more money, but worried about overwork."I think there will be more money to be made but you will probably have to work harder to make it and I don't want to because I have to be home to see my 12-year-old daughter," said cab driver Ma Guiwei."But it will be nice to drive on better road conditions for a while," she added.评论
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时有落花至，远随流水香 赏 2008-07-21#8
768 $0.00 2 Die in Bus Blasts in Southwest China2 Die in Bus Blasts in Southwest China BEIJING ― Two public buses exploded during the Monday morning rush hour in the city of Kunming, killing at least two people and injuring 14 others in what the authorities described as deliberate attacks as China is tightening security nationwide and warning of possible terrorist threats in advance of next month’s Olympic Games. The blasts struck city buses at 7:05 a.m. and again at 8:10 a.m., state media reported. Public security officials in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in southwestern China, provided no information about whether the explosions were coordinated, nor did the authorities say whether they were the work of terrorist groups or disgruntled individuals. By Monday afternoon, the police were still searching for suspects. Checkpoints were set up on highways, while the police were tightening security at Kunming’s airport and train terminal, according to the Web site of the provincial public security bureau. A photograph of one bus posted online showed shards of a shattered window spread across a street but also suggested that the blast had not been powerful enough to inflict catastrophic damage. The explosions come as China has experienced a spate of riots and public protests as the country prepares for the Aug. 8 opening ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics. In recent years, public protests have become common in China, especially in rural areas where farmers have demonstrated against illegal land seizures and official corruption. But the authorities are trying to tamp down embarrassing outbursts in advance of the Olympics and have ordered local authorities to address local grievances and block petitioners from coming to Beijing. As many as 30,000 people rioted in Weng’an County, in Guizhou Province, in response to allegations that the local police had mishandled the investigation of the death of a teenage girl in late June. Last week, a mob of 100 angry protesters attacked a village police station in Guangdong Province in an uprising over allegations of police malfeasance. Last weekend, the police in a rural region of Yunnan Province killed two people after a violent clash with 500 rubber farmers. The farmers, armed with knives, injured 41 police officers and damaged several police cars in a confrontation rooted in a long-running dispute between farmers and a local rubber company, state media reported. Provincial officials are investigating the attack. Beyond the escalating internal disturbances, the authorities are warning that foreign terrorist groups may be plotting to disrupt the Olympics. Chinese officials have singled out the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement and say they destroyed 41 training bases and arrested 82 people. “Intelligence reports show the group has been planning to carry out terrorist attacks during the Games,” Ma Zhenchuan, director of Olympic security, told China Central Television. Some human rights advocates say China is exaggerating the threat posed by the group to justify a broad security crackdown in Xinjiang, the restive western region that is home to the country’s Muslim Uighur population. In Kunming, the first bus blast killed Wang Dezhi, a 30-year-old woman, while injuring 10 others, according to the provincial public security Web site. The second explosion followed 65 minutes later on a different bus that was following the same route. In this blast, a 26-year-old man, Chen Shifei, died and four people were injured. Witnesses on one bus told Chinese newspapers that a short man in a black shirt and gray pants boarded the bus before the explosion and sat behind the driver. After the bus stopped and then prepared to keep going, the man suddenly jumped up and yelled for the driver to let him disembark, the witnesses said. Witnesses told a joint reporting team from the Yunnan Information Daily and the Southern Newspaper Group that the man had left a black leather bag on the bus. About 30 seconds later, the bus exploded. Witnesses on the second bus told Chinese journalists they had also seen a black bag. Ms. Wang was returning with her husband to celebrate the birthday of their 5-year-old daughter. Her husband suffered minor injuries in the explosion. With more than 3 million residents, Kunming is a temperate city that serves as a gateway to some of China’s most scenic areas in outlying Yunnan Province. It serves as a transportation hub to Southeast Asia and is known for its high percentage of minority communities in the province’s mountainous regions. Zhang Jing contributed research for this article. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/world/asia/22china.html评论
时有落花至，远随流水香 赏 2008-07-23#9
768 $0.00 Beijing hotels slash prices as world shuns OlympicsBeijing hotels slash prices as world shuns OlympicsPublished Date: 23 July 2008By Henry Sanderson and Kirby Chienin BeijingHOTELS in Beijing are slashing their room rates for next month's Olympics after an expected rush of visitors failed to materialise.The Chinese capital had originally been expecting 500,000 foreign guests for the Games, but that estimate has been scaled back. Some people have been scared off by high prices, while others have had trouble getting visas amid tightened security.Fan Runjun, of the Chinese travel website Ctrip.com, said many two-star to four-star hotels had reduced their prices by between 10 per cent and 20 per cent compared with May and June.Some had slashed rates by as much as 30 per cent, said Mr Fan, whose site lists about 500 hotels in its English-language section.The usual pre-Olympic festive atmosphere that host cities experience has not yet hit Beijing, with some hotels feeling empty and listless. In June, the number of tourists heading to Beijing, including overseas and domestic visitors, declined by 19.9 per cent from a year earlier, according to the Beijing Tourism Authority.Now, average room prices in three-star hotels are down to 400 yuan (£30) per night, from 700 yuan in previous months. Four-star hotels have dropped their rates to about 800 yuan a night, from 1,500 yuan.China has ratcheted up security for the Olympics, tightening visa rules even for foreign travellers who hold tickets for the Games, which will run from 8 to 24 August. Multiple-entry visas have also been restricted, causing a drop in business travel.The government has said the Games are a target for terrorists, and it has reported breaking up plots to attack the event by Islamic radicals in the western province of Xinjiang. In a show of force, China's military has stationed a ground-to-air missile battery only 300 metres from one Beijing Olympic venue.Luo Qiong, a public relations manager at the Xiao Xiang Hotel, a three-star establishment near the Temple of Heaven in southern Beijing, said it had cut prices by 20 per cent.That followed a drop in the number of guests caused by the visa restrictions and the fact many exhibitions had moved to other cities in China."As a result of all that, our occupancy isn't as good as we expected. And I don't think things will get any better, even with the rate cut," she said.A man named Wu from the China Hotel Management Association, who was unwilling to give his full name or position, as is common in China, said most three-star hotels or below were cutting prices because occupancy rates were not as high as expected."Now that they found there are not enough guests booking their rooms, they have to cut their prices," he said.Most hotels that have been approved by the Beijing Olympic Organising Committee are four- or five-star, Mr Wu said, and their rooms have already been booked. Those hotels cater to Olympic officials, sponsors and national Olympic delegations, and their prices were set last year by negotiation, rather than by market demand.Tian Ye, the manager of the sales department of the three-star Fuhao Hotel in the central shopping district of Wangfujing, minutes from Tiananmen Square, said it cut its rates last month by about 20 per cent.He revealed that a quarter of the hotel's foreign bookings had been cancelled at the end of May as a result of the massive earthquake in south-west China and the snowstorms that struck the south in February. "It is getting harder as the Olympics approaches to sell rooms. Now we have cut our prices to attract domestic guests," he said.BACKGROUNDTHE security measures being taken in Beijing for the Olympics are unprecedented in peacetime, with some fearing a heavy handedness that could mar the event. Already a battle is being fought with foreign TV companies denied access to Tiananmen Square, as well as control over broadcasts.Some measures are less invasive to foreigners, such as a one-month ban announced yesterday on the production and sale of replica guns.Beijing has started security checks on people entering airport terminals and is asking subway passengers to take a swig of any bottled fluids they carry. The government was yesterday forced to deny a report of a ban on Africans and Mongolians in bars for the duration of the games because of concern over drug-dealing.____________http://news.scotsman.com/world/Beijing-hotels-slash-prices-as.4313894.jp评论
时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?three-star Fuhao Hotel in the central shopping district of Wangfujing, minutes from Tiananmen Square, said it cut its rates last month by about 20 per cent.so funny
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Beijing to set up special Olympic protest zonesBeijing to set up special Olympic protest zonesBy CHARLES HUTZLERBEIJING (AP) ― China will allow a modicum of dissent at the Olympics, setting up special protest zones far from the main sports venues, in a shift that supporters and detractors said Wednesday is meant to safely channel criticism and avoid disrupting the games.The designated protest areas will be in parts of three public parks, none of them closer than several miles from the main Olympic stadium. One zone is in a park that features large-scale mock-ups of the White House and other world monuments, raising the prospect that protesters will appear to be elsewhere in televised images and news photos.In making the announcement, the Beijing Olympic organizing committee's security director, Liu Shaowu, cited the use of protest areas at the 2004 Athens Olympics."People or protesters who want to express their personal opinions can go to do so," Liu told reporters.The move, however, doesn't mean Beijing is inviting a flood of protests at the games, which open in 16 days. Liu suggested demonstrators would need to apply for permission in advance.Tightened visa checks have prevented or deterred foreign groups like the Committee to Protect Journalists from coming to Beijing, although actor Mia Farrow's Dream for Darfur said its visa application was pending. Overseas broadcasters, such as NBC which paid hundreds of millions of dollars to air the games, are still wrangling with organizers over restrictions on live coverage around the city."Until it begins, we will not know how the officials and police will react," said John Barton, director of sport for the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, which represents broadcasters in 57 countries. "It's a lottery."Beijing is now ringed with police checkpoints, designed to keep out bomb-making materials, would-be terrorists and domestic protesters, and dotted with half-empty hotels. But it is also festooned with banners, creating an odd mixture of festiveness and tension.Still, the decision to permit even small demonstrations marks a turnaround for an authoritarian government that has seemed set on smothering any protests at an Olympics it wants to be a flawless celebration of a friendly, modern China."This will allow people to protest without disrupting the Olympics," said Ni Jianping, director of the Shanghai Institute of American Studies, who lobbied Chinese leaders to set up the protest zones. "We're giving people a platform to express their views."While protests have become common throughout China ― from workers upset about factory layoffs to farmers angry about land confiscation ― the communist leadership remains wary about large demonstrations, fearing they could snowball into widespread anti-government movements. Three violent protests have occurred in far-flung provinces in recent weeks.After foreign groups critical of China's human rights, media controls and foreign policies in places like Sudan's Darfur area began targeting the Olympics a year ago, Beijing ramped up an intelligence-collection effort to identify critics to keep them out. The melee of protests that greeted Beijing's international torch relay in April brought a redoubling of efforts.Amid the uproar, some sought to persuade Beijing that flexibility and openness would deflect the criticism. Ni, working with Susan Brownell, an American academic at Beijing Sports University, pointed out there were protest zones at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics in 2002 as a positive example in a paper forwarded to officials they declined to identify.Security is still the utmost priority. Liu, the security official, reiterated the government's view that terrorism poses a great threat, saying the half-million expected visitors offer an opportunity for terrorists to infiltrate. Brownell said Chinese leaders would not have agreed to protests unless they felt it would enhance control."It was about placating the West. They were really concerned about social order," said Brownell, a China expert at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. "They must have come up with a plan to improve social order rather than make it worse."Human rights campaigners assailed the protest zones as cosmetic, with one likening them to a "fishbowl" ― sealed off from society at large."Designating unilaterally 'protest zones' for demonstrators does not equate to respecting the right to demonstrate, because in this situation control comes first and the right second," said Nicholas Bequelin, a researcher with New York-based Human Rights Watch's Asia Division.Signs abound that the government intends to keep a tight rein. Housing activist Ye Guozhu, who was jailed for trying to organize a protest of evictions for Beijing's Olympic makeover, was taken from the Chaobai Prison to an undisclosed location Tuesday, four days before his release, said the China Human Rights Defenders activist group.In Shanghai, which hosts preliminary Olympic soccer games, dissident lawyer Zheng Enchong was taken away Wednesday by police, Bequelin said. Police in Shanghai and Beijing said they did not know about those two cases.The special protest areas are not near the Olympic green where most venues, the main media centers and the medal ceremonies are concentrated, but rather are in distant parks: the World Park in the southwest, three miles from the softball field; the Purple Bamboo Park in the west, south of the volleyball arena; and Ritan Park in the east, near no venues.Mention of the protest zones was expunged from the briefing's official transcript. Ni, the Shanghai scholar, said that Chinese protesters may be allowed only in the rather far World Park, not in the other venues.Liu also reiterated that Chinese regulations require that all protesters apply and receive permission in advance. "Generally speaking, we will invite those participants to demonstrate their demonstrations in designated places, and this is also a common practice in other countries," Liu said.Even if protests do occur, they are unlikely to find favor with Chinese at large. The raucous protests abroad of the Olympic torch relay incited a patriotic backlash among Chinese. Brownell said her research found that many Chinese view the Olympics as a solemn affair in which they are inviting guests into their homes and all sides should show respect."Whereas we see controlled protests as a way of venting steam, Chinese see this as inviting people to riot," she said.Associated Press reporters Stephen Wade in Beijing and Lily Hindy in New York contributed to this report.______________http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmqNTRCmbmBq9bVLWtA5QBUqKQFAD923PHFG0
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时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?it's intresting
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回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?it's intresting点击展开...Special Olympic protest zones are designed for foreigner people not for Chinese people, because Beijing must consider the human right of foreigners from other countries.
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时有落花至，远随流水香 赏 2008-07-27#14
768 $0.00 Air pollution still a problem in BeijingAir pollution still a problem in BeijingSun July 27, 2008 - BEIJINGABC 33/40 News - Air pollution still a problem in BeijingThick pollution blanketed the Chinese capital on Sunday - one of the smoggiest days seen in the past month - but a city environmental official pledged that theair quality would be "good" by the time the Beijing Olympics start in 12 days. Despite tough traffic restrictions imposed a week ago to help reduce pollution. visibility was a half-mile in parts of the city. At the opening of the Athletes' Village on Sunday, the complex was invisible from the nearby main Olympic Green.The city's notoriously polluted air remains one of the biggest question marks hanging over the games, which begin Aug. 8. The air quality in August will be good," Du Shaozhong, deputy director of the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau, told reporters Sunday.Du blamed the thick haze on a combination of fog and light wind unable to blow away the pollution, but he said pollution levels now are 20 percent lower than one year ago in similarweather conditions. He did not provide any details. Our job is to decrease the pollution as much as possible, but sometimes it is very common to have fog in Beijing at this time, Du said.Olympic athletes have been trickling into Beijing, but are expected to begin arriving in larger numbers this week. Some, though, were headed to training sites in South Korea, Japan and other places to avoid theBeijing air until the last possible minute.No, it doesn't really look so good, but as I said, yesterday was better, said Gunilla Lindberg, an International Olympic Committee vice president from Sweden who is staying in the Athletes' Village. "The day I arrived, Tuesday, was awful We try to be hopeful. Hopefully we are lucky during the games as we were with Atlanta, Athens and Barcelona she added.Jacques Rogge, president of the IOC, has warned that outdoor endurance events will be postponed if the air quality is poor.Drastic efforts to curb pollution include pulling half of Beijing's 3.3 million vehicles off the roads, closing factories in the city and in a half dozen surrounding provinces, and halting most construction in the capital. Some 300,000 heavily polluting vehicles, such as aging industrial trucks, have been banned since July 1.Experts have said that while the measures are sure to reduce pollution, they are not a guarantee for blue skies during the games. Wind can blow pollution toBeijing from thousands of miles away, while a lack of wind can cause chemicals and particulate matter to build up in the city.There's only so much you can do with local emission reduction,said Veerabhadran Ramanathan, an atmospheric scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego. He is leading a team that is studying the impact ofBeijing's pollution reduction measures.You're basically at the mercy of the winds,he said.评论
时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?Toronto, Ontario (TextWeather: TOR) PrintCurrent WeatherUpdated:Sunday July 27 2008,20:00 EDT- Pearson AirportPartly cloudy19°C * °C * °FPartly cloudy * Feels Like: - * Wind: W 15km/h * Sunrise: 6:02 * Sunset: 20:46 * Relative Humidity: 78% * Pressure: 100.84 kPa * Visibility: 24.0 km * Ceiling: 16000 ft――――――――――――――――――Beijing, China (TextWeather: BEI)Current WeatherUpdated:Monday July 28 2008,8:00 CST- BeijingA few clouds26°C * °C * °FA few clouds * Feels Like: 38 * Wind: E 7km/h * Relative Humidity: 89% * Pressure: 100.69 kPa * Visibility: 1.6 km * Ceiling: unlimited ___________________________ * Visibility: 24.0 km vs * Visibility: 1.6 km
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时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?http://news.ifeng.com/mainland/200807/0728_17_677765.shtml杜少中指出，7月20日以来已经向社会公布的空气污染指数分别是55、65、67、89、113、110，只有两天是超标的。他肯定地说，北京可以保证奥运会期间空气质量良好，为运动员提供良好的大气环境。北京为了兑现对奥运会改善空气质量的承诺，多年来为空气质量改善、空气中的污染物下降做了大量的工作，加上2008年奥运前严格的综合治理措施和进入7月份以后奥运期间的临时减排措施，都已初步显示出了空气质量改善的成果。――――――――――――――――――――――――――http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/07/27/beijing-smog.html#socialcommentsSounds like Toronto...This is why I refuse to live in any place where part of the weather report is the Pollution Index. If you find that kind of information useful, then you are living in the wrong place. I had to move from T.O. because not being able to leave the house some days is just wrong.Right now, I just checked the Air Quality Indexes for the following places:Higher is worse. Under 25 is considered Good. Results from the Weather Network.Ft McMurray (Oilsands - most polluted place in Alberta): 20Calgary: 16Vancouver: 13Toronto: 31New York: 57Beijing: 82I've been to China quite a bit, and can tell you that Beijing is really located in a bad place. It's prone to inversions (like Toronto) that can trap pollution, making a bad situation even worse.If they had been smart, they should have held the Olympics in Xiamen, Nanjing or some other major city that doesn't have this problem. But I suppose that would not have been the "political" thing to do.Ian
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时有落花至，远随流水香 赏 2008-07-30#17
768 $0.00 Iraq will be allowed to compete in BeijingIraq will be allowed to compete in Beijing11:26 PM CDT on Tuesday, July 29, 2008Associated PressLAUSANNE, Switzerland ? The International Olympic Committee agreed Tuesday to allow Iraq to participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel.The decision followed last-minute talks between Iraqi officials and the IOC ahead of today's deadline to submit competitors' names for track and field events. The Olympics begin Aug. 8.Iraq is now expected to send two athletes to Beijing to compete in track and field. The decision came too late for five other hopefuls in archery, judo, rowing and weightlifting. The deadline to submit names for those sports expired last week.Iraq's National Olympic Committee was dissolved by the Baghdad government in May, prompting the IOC to suspend the Mideast country from the Olympics for political interference.The IOC had insisted the old committee be reinstated even though four members were kidnapped two years ago. Their fates remain unknown.The agreement worked out Tuesday calls for Iraq to hold free elections for its national Olympic committee under international observation.Morgan Hamm gets good news: The International Gymnastics Federation said it will not appeal Morgan Hamm's punishment by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.The gymnast arrived Tuesday in San Jose, Calif., to go through processing with the rest of the American men.USADA announced July 3 that Hamm had been warned for a May 24 positive test for glucocorticosteroid, a cortisone-like anti-inflammatory. The drug is allowed if an athlete gets a therapeutic use exemption, but Hamm had failed to do that.USADA said it had "absolutely no concern" the shot was for anything but medicinal purposes.Briefly: Asafa Powell ran his fastest 100 meters of the season (9.82 seconds), and Yelena Isinbayeva broke her own record in the women's pole vault (5.04 meters) to highlight the Herculis Super Grand Prix meet in Monte Carlo, Monaco. U.S. sprinter Darvis Patton, a Lake Highlands and TCU product, was second to Powell in 9.98. ... Yao Ming scored 21 points in 28 minutes to lead China past Angola, 83-74, another step in his return from injury with less than two weeks until the Olympics. ... Four-time Olympian Karen O'Connor will replace Heidi White on the U.S. Olympic equestrian team in eventing. O'Connor, a team alternate, joined the team after White withdrew her mount Northern Spy for veterinary reasons. http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/olympics/stories/073008dnspoiraq.4272858.html评论
时有落花至，远随流水香回复: ZT Can the Olympics Knock Down the Great Firewall?IOC issues statement on Internet censorship in Beijing10:11 AM, July 31, 2008In a terse statement released a short time ago, the IOC stated that "no deal with the Chinese authorities to censor the Internet has ever in any way been entered into."The statement adds that Hein Verbruggen, chairman of the Beijing 2008 IOC Coordination Commission, and Olympic Games Executive Director Gilbert Felli held meetings earlier today with BOCOG members to discuss censorship issues.Two weeks ago, IOC President Jacques Rogge promised that there would be no Internet censorship for working journalists in Beijing. But today, Kevan Gosper, head of the IOC media commission, alleged that the IOC had bowed to Chinese pressure and agreed to let the host country limit Internet access for reporters working in Beijing. Reporters are unable to access websites that deal with such issues as Tibet."The issues were put on the table, and the IOC requested that the Olympic Games hosts address them," according to the ICO statement. "We understand that BOCOG will give details to the media very soon of how the matter has been addressed. We trust them to keep their promise."The statement also maintained that "our position is that the IOC has always encouraged the Beijing 2008 organisers to provide media with the fullest access possible to report on the Olympic Games, including access to the Internet."-- Greg Johnson http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2008/07/ioc-issues-stat.html
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