Beijing 2008: Where sport and politics collide?

With Beijing 2008 getting closer by the day there has been a certain amount of talk about how Western countries, such as the US, might weave the the Olympics into their foreign policies.

As such, some groups have argued that the games will provide the West with the perfect opportunity to put pressure on Beijing over its human rights record. Equally and other groups have leveled that politics and sport should be kept separate, and that the West would be best served making sure that it was their athletes who make the headlines, not their politicians.

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