For those of you fortunate enough to watch the Opening Ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, you might have noticed that, in contrast with previous iterations of the Winter Olympics, North and South Korea did not walk together during the presentation of countries and athletes.
To what extent the spirit of the Olympics affects, and is affected by, international politics is debatable, but it is certain that global affairs and the quadrennial Games do correlate to each other. Because of a recent freezing in political relations between ROK and DPRK, the sister countries did not walk together at the Olympics.
I would have been only *slightly* more surprised to see North Korea and Iran walk together.
And on the topic of Olympic diplomacy, I would certainly be interested to understand how the International Olympic Committee (IOC) determines what country will host the next Summer or Winter Olympic Games. The choice of China to host the 2008 Summer Games has been well documented, and with London hosting the 2012 Summer Games and Sochi, Russia hosting the 2014 Winter Games, one cannot help but wonder what economic and political factors the IOC must take into account when evaluating bids from different cities.
What are your thoughts?
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1 comment:
Pretty conventional observation. I expect more from Rizofoshizo.
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