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2008-04-11 China-Japan-Koreas

Athletes who take Tibet stand 'face Olympic cut'

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Posted by gorb 2008-04-11 04:22|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Time to tell China to go f*ck themselves. And the IOC to boot.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2008-04-11 08:20|| 2008-04-11 08:20|| Front Page Top

#2 The American team also refused to dip its flag to Edward VII during the opening ceremony

When did the US ever dip its flag to a personage at the Olympics? I thought the Olympics was about the athletes, not some grandiose circus paying homage to rulers. Oh, wait, never mind....

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-11 09:47|| 2008-04-11 09:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Olympics? How boring!

Posted by Crolusing tse Tung2745 2008-04-11 13:22|| 2008-04-11 13:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing, unless it is the ensign responding to a salute from a ship of a foreign nation. This tradition comes from the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, where countries were asked to dip their flag to King Edward VII: the American team flag bearer, Ralph Rose, refused, famously proclaiming that "this flag dips to no earthly king."

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-11 13:44|| 2008-04-11 13:44|| Front Page Top

#5 See this link for rules for the Flag:
http://www.usflag.org/uscode36.html
click on the 'flag ettiquette' link for more topical info ( no dips. period)

Posted by USN,Ret. 2008-04-11 15:44|| 2008-04-11 15:44|| Front Page Top

#6 Boring? Not this year. I suspect this will end badly, and not just for the Chinese.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2008-04-11 16:41|| 2008-04-11 16:41|| Front Page Top

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