Thursday, February 14, 2008

Olympic boycott has 'no purpose'


Any call for a boycott of this summer's Beijing Games would be counter-productive, the Olympics Minister Tessa Jowell has said.

Her comments come after a group of Nobel Prize winners, international athletes and politicians wrote a letter to the Chinese president.

It asks him to use his influence in Sudan to end the conflict in Darfur.

Tessa Jowell said calls for a boycott Were a "great pity" and Britain was still committed to attending the games.

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I understand that yeah... the conflict needs to end, but the Olympics have not been boycotted since i believe the eighties, in the cold war. That is going backwards.

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