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The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because\u00c2\u00a0the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, cystitis<\/a> the more questions arise and the more challenges come\u00c2\u00a0with them. Nevertheless, hemorrhoids<\/a> I find the online battle of ideas to be most interesting. Just put “human rights and 2008 Olympics” on YouTube and more than 25 videos will pop up, all them making a positive or negative statement and linking it with the future Olympics. Or, simply set up a Google Alerts for the same keywords and every week \u00c2\u00a0you’ll get (as I do) an e-mail with links, among others, to the\u00c2\u00a0 blogs where a related story was published. The internet hosts both partisans of the 2008\u00c2\u00a0Games as powerful voices against them and moreover, gives both parties, an opportunity to interact.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

For example the very active YouTube\u00c2\u00a0user\u00c2\u00a0and blog host\u00c2\u00a0called “noolympics<\/a>” has\u00c2\u00a0found strong debate oponents such as the “olympicblogger<\/a>” or the daily, neutral in tone but favorable in attitude blog of the “2008gamesbeijing<\/a>“. All these writers are very vocal advocates of their causes and the the discourse they use can make an interesting study of rhetorics. But what makes it most interesting and very relevant to the human rights article my professor and I are working on, is the fact that the main issue of debate IS the\u00c2\u00a0human rights issue… and this when the IOC and Olympic Charter state fairly clearly that the choice of an olympic host is dependent on other criteria than the human rights abuses record one has.<\/p>\n

Yet, when the Olympic Charter mentions the Olympic goals (see below), one cannot stop asking how can human dignity, respect, non-discrimination\u00c2\u00a0and human rights\u00c2\u00a0be treated as separate notions when they are, in fact, inseparable?<\/p>\n