Beijing Olympics - the Alternate Medal Tally

[Mantas 3]

>Yang has uneven teeth and a chubby face.<

 

Uneven teeth? Smog? Pollution? Over zelous security?

 

My illusions of China have been shattered!

[Rag-Doll 0]

The Olympics are definitely China's coming out and what they have shown is that the new China the same as the old China, except richer.

[Mantas 3]

Originally Posted By: Rag-Doll

b. Journalist Being Assualted/Having Equipment Broken By Security Personnel (including police, para-military, civilian security and "plain clothed" security) Event. I think we can look forward to some strong competition from Taiwan and Hong Kong, particularly if recent form is any indication.

You didn't study the form too well RD. A dark horse has bolted from England to take the lead in this one.

John Ray, an ITN correspondent in Beijing, was approaching a bridge where a pro-Tibet banner was being unfurled at the Ethnic Minorities park, half a mile south of the "Bird's Nest" Stadium.
He was initially pushed away by security guards when he reached the park, but was then approached by four or five policemen in uniform, he said.
"They basically hauled me to the ground," he said after his release.
Ray said they dragged him kicking and screaming that he was a British journalists to the back room of a nearby restaurant.
"They held me down on a sofa and took my shoes off," he said.
As he was being taken away by police he telephoned friends to say "I have been roughed up. They dragged me, pulled me and knocked me to the ground. Now they are filming me."
After he tried to run away, they continued to hold him down before taking him back out of the restaurant and threw him in the back of a police van. He said they would not let him take his journalist's or International Olympic Committee accreditation out of his pocket to show the police.
At one point they stamped on his hand, bruising a finger. His cameraman, Ben England, was physically prevented from filming the incident, including by security guards putting up umbrellas in front of his camera.
Eventually Ray was released after calls were made to representatives of the Foreign Correspondents Club of China. But his bag of equipment was still being held by police this afternoon.
He said he has since been told the police are accusing him of himself unfurling a Tibetan banner - strictly illegal in China. He said he noticed such a banner being put in the back of the police van as he sat there.
The only thing they asked him in English was what his views on Tibet were, he said. "I said I didn't have any views, I was a journalist," he said. He said he categorically denied ever having been in possession of any such protest material.

"I wonder where this fits in with their solemn promise to allow free and unrestricted reporting," he said.

[thursday 1]

I just wish protesters woud do it properly and dowse themselves in petrol then light it.

[Rag-Doll 0]

Nice one Mantas.

[thursday 1]

you just have to wonder if it was just lip synching