On Jun 11, 3:42 pm, "Jan Rasmussen" <1...@2.3> wrote:
> "cpeter" <cphpe...@gmail.com> skrev i en meddelelsenews:1181548162.601797..27300@n4g2000hsb.googlegroups.com...
>
> >Nu slår IOC til igen :
> >"Backpacks, caps and other licensed products for the 2008 Beijing
> >Olympics are being made in Chinese factories that use child labour and
> >force employees to work long hours for less than minimum wage, a
> >report released yesterday said."
>
> >
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article2643021.ece
>
> Taget i betragtning af nedenstående så kan det ikke vel ikke overraske.
>
>
http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/08/14/spt_oly1symb.html
> Rings, torch have ties to Hitler's Nazi propaganda
>
> By William J. Kole The Associated Press - ATHENS, Greece -
>
> The most beloved emblems of the modern Olympics have a decidedly dark past.
>
> The torch relay that culminates in the ceremonial lighting of the flame at
> Olympic stadium was ordered by Adolf Hitler, who tried to turn the 1936
> Berlin Games into a celebration of the Third Reich.
>
> And it was Hitler's Nazi propaganda machine that popularized the five
> interlocking rings as the symbol of the Games.
>
> Today, both are universally recognized icons of the Olympics.
> But historians say neither had much, if anything, to do with the
> Games born centuries ago in Ancient Olympia.
>
> "The torch relay is so ingrained in the modern choreography
> that most people today assume it was a revival of a pagan tradition
> - unaware that it was actually concocted for Hitler's Games in Berlin,"
> author Tony Perrottet writes in a new book, The Naked Olympics.
>
> The modern tradition of spiriting the Olympic torch to the main stadium
> didn't become a fixture of the Games until 1936, when a 12-day run
> opened the Games in Berlin.
> The Olympic rings, another universally recognized symbol of the games
> since they made their debut in 1920 at Antwerp, Belgium, have their own Nazi connection.
>
> Originally, they were designed in 1913 by Pierre de Coubertin, founder
> of the IOC and father of the modern Olympic movement, for a 1914
> World Olympic Congress in Paris. They were supposed to symbolize
> the first five Olympics, but the congress disbanded when Archduke
> Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Sarajevo, triggering World War I.
>
> Leni Riefenstahl, the Olympia filmmaker who also chronicled Hitler's rise
> to power, had the rings carved into a stone altar at the ancient Greek
> city of Delphi, spawning the myth that they were a symbol dating more than two millennia.
>
> With Hitler's influence, the rings became part of the Nazi pageantry at Berlin
> - and they've come to symbolize the Olympics ever since.
>
> Jan Rasmussen
Var spændt på, om noget, som IKKE omhandler indvandrere, overhoved
ville afføde en respons - så tak for det.
Men ellers ja - de holder de "stolte" traditioner kørende. Det er til
at brække sig over, synes jeg.