Token gesture of the week
Seeing this headline - Australian athletes will not attend Olympic ceremony - I was gearing up to praise our Antipodean kin and contrast their approach with the kowtowing by the rabble leading this country.
However, it is nothing to do with human rights, still less the occupation of Tibet but rather this:
"Australian Olympic officials have banned the country's athletes from marching at this summer's opening ceremony in Beijing because of concerns about air pollution in the Chinese capital". I am not making this up.
If Oz's athletes, synchronised swimmers and underwater tiddlywinks players have such delicate lungs, is it safe for them to even get off the plane?
Perhaps someone can come up with an inventive excuse for our athletes, underwater tiddlywinks players ete etc?
However, it is nothing to do with human rights, still less the occupation of Tibet but rather this:
"Australian Olympic officials have banned the country's athletes from marching at this summer's opening ceremony in Beijing because of concerns about air pollution in the Chinese capital". I am not making this up.
If Oz's athletes, synchronised swimmers and underwater tiddlywinks players have such delicate lungs, is it safe for them to even get off the plane?
Perhaps someone can come up with an inventive excuse for our athletes, underwater tiddlywinks players ete etc?
Labels: 'People's Republic' of China, Australia, Cant, WLOSAF
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If Jonah's going, what's the point of anybody else being there?
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