Beijing wants to keep politics out

The International Olympic Committee is ending a week of meetings overshadowed by violent protests against the torch relay for the Beijing Games.

With the Olympic flame in Argentina, IOC officials were discussing how future relays should be handled. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has told China he will not attend the Games opening ceremony in Beijing in August.

The IOC president said protests at the relay in London, Paris and San Francisco had created a "crisis". Speaking on Thursday, Jacques Rogge also urged China to respect its "moral engagement" to improve human rights. But Beijing told the IOC to keep politics out of the Games.

Indeed, but what happens with politics entering the Olympics? And they have done so for the last …let me see 70 years when Nazis organized the Olympic games in 1938.

Jacques Rogge and the Olympic values

The head of the International Olympic Committee has said the Beijing Games will rebound from "crisis" after days of protests along the torch route.

Jacques Rogge told a meeting of national committees in the Chinese capital that they should assure their countries the Games would succeed. The US stage of the torch relay passed off amid confusion and tight security in San Francisco on Wednesday.

The route was totally changed at the last minute amid anti-Chinese protests. Torch-bearers were immersed in a cocoon of security, surrounded by dozens of police officers and track-suited Chinese guards.

The last decades the Olympic committees have sell out the Olympic values and the Olympic spirit, but Jacques Rogge will be long remembered because he sold something that wasn’t his, Tibet’s freedom!

2004 Athens, where democracy born, 2008 Beijing, where democracy dies every day

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) President, Jacques Rogge, has spoken out over recent unrest in Tibet. Speaking in Beijing, Mr. Rogge said the IOC "has expressed its serious concern and called for a rapid, peaceful resolution of Tibet".

He also condemned the violent protests which have accompanied the progress of the Olympic torch on its global relay. "Violence for whatever reason is not compatible with the values of the torch relay or the Olympic Games," he said. The Olympic torch relay through Western Europe started in London on Sunday with angry protests against China's actions in Tibet.

Well Jacques, isn’t a bit late you remembered the Olympic values? 2004 Olympics in Athens the place democracy born, 2008 Olympics in Beijing, the place democracy dies every day!