Published July 24th, 2008
If all the hype about the meaning and reasoning behind the Olympics ever meant anything, (See Part One), why, just a few generations after the inception of the modern Olympiad, was Hitler’s Germany awarded the 1936 Games?
Why were the 1980 Olympics held in the U.S.S.R., a nation which had an obscene record of terror, international intrigue, militarism, and repression in Eastern Europe, and which had invaded Afghanistan less than a year earlier.
And why in the name of God were this summer’s Olympics bestowed upon the warlike, autocratic, and repressive People’s Republic of China?
Aside from the fact China...