Haile Gebreselassie will not run the marathon in Beijing because it ensures that contamination of the city in China can seriously affect your lungs. Many have said that Gebre looking for excuses at the end of his career and this is a diplomatic way out of a love and I can not. These many do not see beyond their noses. The International Olympic Committee itself has accepted that pollution levels could affect the athletes to practice mountain biking, cycling, marathon, swimming in open water Triathlon and running.
The proximity of the desert, and the constant sandstorms that plague the city are mixed with many factories that still use coal and the increasing number of motor vehicles passing each day in the city.
That the Ethiopian runner who is not on the height of a new Olympic marathon is an issue that we can neither confirm nor deny (it does run the 10,000), but that excuse not to run those 42 miles through the streets Peking seems not only laudable, but entirely consistent with what should be the Olympic spirit: no one would ever play a basketball final inside a nightclub where smoking is allowed, for example. Therefore, it does have really messed up, and knee have been the International Olympic Committee, assigning the conclusion of the Games to a country in second place in the list of the most polluted in the world, only behind the U.S. To all this, moreover, there were the Chinese-handling not too clean "in Tibet, which would put a medal on the chest over the IOC, which, it seems, communes with the mill wheels offered by the Beijing government.
Gebre, his decision not to run the marathon in this Olympics, has emerged as a staunch advocate of the environment, and his example should make other athletes. The pollution in Beijing is so alarming that it will be difficult to offer a few games short of the circumstances. The only people who can demonstrate the ecological attack are the participants in the Games, and have a wonderful chance to do so.
The Chinese government, meanwhile, has announced it will close factories and controls increase the duration of the Olympics. The question is only for the duration of the games? And why not step up controls on a regular, ordinary, compliance with Kyoto, and work, as do many countries, to have a planet more livable? Contaminant of China's attitude is very negative for the enhancement of the greenhouse effect, so West should be, as has already been Gebreselassie, intolerant and punish their lack of solidarity with the planet.
The proximity of the desert, and the constant sandstorms that plague the city are mixed with many factories that still use coal and the increasing number of motor vehicles passing each day in the city.
That the Ethiopian runner who is not on the height of a new Olympic marathon is an issue that we can neither confirm nor deny (it does run the 10,000), but that excuse not to run those 42 miles through the streets Peking seems not only laudable, but entirely consistent with what should be the Olympic spirit: no one would ever play a basketball final inside a nightclub where smoking is allowed, for example. Therefore, it does have really messed up, and knee have been the International Olympic Committee, assigning the conclusion of the Games to a country in second place in the list of the most polluted in the world, only behind the U.S. To all this, moreover, there were the Chinese-handling not too clean "in Tibet, which would put a medal on the chest over the IOC, which, it seems, communes with the mill wheels offered by the Beijing government.
Gebre, his decision not to run the marathon in this Olympics, has emerged as a staunch advocate of the environment, and his example should make other athletes. The pollution in Beijing is so alarming that it will be difficult to offer a few games short of the circumstances. The only people who can demonstrate the ecological attack are the participants in the Games, and have a wonderful chance to do so.
The Chinese government, meanwhile, has announced it will close factories and controls increase the duration of the Olympics. The question is only for the duration of the games? And why not step up controls on a regular, ordinary, compliance with Kyoto, and work, as do many countries, to have a planet more livable? Contaminant of China's attitude is very negative for the enhancement of the greenhouse effect, so West should be, as has already been Gebreselassie, intolerant and punish their lack of solidarity with the planet.
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