BASSETERRE, St. Kitts (AP) - International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge poured cold water Saturday on calls for a boycott of the Summer Games in Beijing over China's crackdown in Tibet, saying it would only hurt athletes.
"We believe that the boycott doesn't solve anything," Rogge told reporters on this Caribbean island. "On the contrary, it is penalizing innocent athletes and it is stopping the organization from something that definitely is worthwhile organizing."
Now, we wouldn't want those athletes doing something that was actually really sure enough worthwhile, like say pressuring the Chinese Communists to not kill people. After all the brotherhood of making money for the organizers, media and China is just soooooo much more important, don't you know??
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