Jacques Rogge is scheduled to visit Chicago and New York City this week. While in NY, he will visit the United Nations where there will be a BOCOG presented traditional proposal for an Olympic Truce during the 2008 Games.
What's wrong with this picture? Plenty.
If you've watched the news lately, we've seen a lot of info on what has been going on in Tibet recently. No truce there, what with people getting shot and violence from the ruling military being the order of the day.
I see irony in all this. It's the old "don't do as I am do as I say" or something similar. It's OK to spill blood and guts back home but when it is on an international scale, let's present a more civilised approach to the world.
It won't work.
Perhaps BOCOG should go back to 2001 and make a commitment to the promises they made that day in Moscow. Withdraw their illegal occupation of Tibet. Stop harassing Taiwan. In other words, be true to their words that they spoke that day.
Then maybe their proposal for an Olympic Truce will mean something. But for now, it's just empty words on paper, while the killing and intimidation still happens back in their homelands.
And that is something President Rogge shouldn't have to tolerate---but he does.
I've said it before and I will say it again: it's time for change and it's time for Rogge to go. Then perhaps the Olympic Truce will have teeth to those words, because we then will have an IOC President who backs it up 100%.
