Recently, there has been talk about boycotting the Olympics this year because of China's oppressive nature against the Tibet people. There are only four words that can describe the real situation of all human rights advocates: TO LITTLE TO LATE.
The International Olympic Committee picked China over four years ago, THAT is when people should have protested the games, not four months before the games begin. It is basically sending a message to the world that the only time when people can fight oppression is when it is popular in the media. TO LITTLE TO LATE.
Olympic boycotts in the past were horrible, but planned at least two years before the games would begin. If any democratic country boycotts this year because of an infringement on human rights, all they are saying is that democratic countries only care about what is popular in the media. Let the athletes compete without political tension. The IOC is not ignoring the issue on human rights, it just took to long for the democratic countries to care and the only outcome of a boycott would be to embarrass human rights commissions by exposing their own procrastination. This type of irrational behavior shows that democratic leaders do not have the judgement to act properly in world issues. Fortunately that could change soon.
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Much as a boycott is justified, for the athletes, I can't justify it. An athlete is at an Olympic peak once, and they work an entire lifetime to get there. They are the ones that will suffer.
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