Tibet:China:Olympics2008 -Augur of deeper consequences?

[devonin]

"Just move it"?

Even given all of the controversy and issues surrounding the selection of Beijing for the Olympics, the IOC decided to hold it there anyway. I'm pretty sure no amount of protest is going to make them simply "switch" to somewhere else, for not the least of which reasons, China has put a huge amount of money into creating appropriate infrastructure to host the Olympics, and even if it weren't basically a kick in the teeth to their economy to say "Yes, we'll make you invest all this money into something and then simply leave instead of letting you recoup your investment" I really can't think of anywhere they could go to on such short notice except a city who already hosted who had been maintaining all their facilities.

What is much more likely to happen is that a number of countries will boycott attending, and there will just be a really crappy turnout and a bad Olympic Games.