The Olympic Legacy in China

Re: Liu Xiang out - bad luck!

Hm...true, even though I live on the other side of the strait, hes a good athlete.

Re: Liu Xiang out - bad luck!

kliu0 said:

Hm...true, even though I live on the other side of the strait, hes a good athlete.

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I think all athletes deserve respect, regardless of where they come from. I was happy for the North Korean girl who won a medal in the Olympics - even if it will be used for propaganda by the rather nasty government in Pyongyang.

Of course lots of other athletes have had trouble this year (and every year there's someone). Zara Phillips couldn't even come to Hong Kong because her horse was injured - she was fancied to challenge for a gold medal. Hopefully she'll be ok for London 2012.

I know this will disappoint to hear for some, but even before the Olympic start, a pool showed that over 84% of the Chinese is contend with the government's decision. To make this number more incredible, it was took right after China's energy agreement with Japan. And many many Chinese are angry about that energy agreement.

Re: Liu Xiang out - bad luck!

Yea, I guess. All Athletes deserve respect for their hard work and perseverance. However that doesn't apply to ones that have been found cheating or other exceptions.

Alot of the Chinese were shut out (poor), and a great wall was built around them (literally). That has really annoyed alot of people, noticeably, China's poor population has tripled in growth.

Re: Taiwan's Olympic Dream

I guess, with the loss of several athletes could lead to a bad performance, but I never expected it to be that bad.

China won't be able to keep up this stability for long, once the olympics fade away into memories, there will be nothing else to occupy their time. The middle class will emerge and things won't remain very stable.

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China only knew they had the Olympics since 2002-2003? What was motivating China's economy before this? If the Olympics were such monumental driving issue and focal point from the beginning of Deng's economic reforms, then that would mean a successful Olympics would be paramount to Bejing. What is determined successful? According to critics that means bending to their will which according to them China has actually reverted. If it were that important to Bejing wouldn't they have bent over backward to make sure they were successful? But they haven't according to the critics. So that means the Olympics has no factor beyond superficial on the economy except maybe spur on needed infrastructure changes. Contrary to the propaganda, the Olympics's end won't mean China's economy goes down the toilet. That reminds me of Gordan Chang's prediction that China was going down the toilet as soon as it entered the WTO. What happened? It sky-rocketed instead. Something similar is most likely to happen here because th Olympics were used as an ecuse to build much needed infrastructure.

They had been trying for the Olympics since 1992, they wanted the 2000 Olympics. They won the bid in 2001.

And really....rephrase....I don't get anything you just said....sorry....

What about the twenty years before that? Has the communist been wishing for holding the Olympics since they took over China? Strange for someone to covet the Olympics so much since they never entered a team until 1984.

optionsss said:

I know this will disappoint to hear for some, but even before the Olympic start, a pool showed that over 84% of the Chinese is contend with the government's decision.

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Which decision? Do you mean supportive of the government generally, or the Olympics? I can believe that, even if the people surveyed would have mostly been in the cities.

But how is that relevant to the Olympic legacy for China? It would help if you explain your view a little more clearly.