then we should boycott US products as well
they invade iraq
their soldiers violate the human right as well as animal
doesnt that sound familiar?
i don;t think so that people should boycott

just my 2 cents

boycotting seems like a dumb act to me.

politics shouldn't be mixed with sports.

imagine you're of of the chosen athletes, you have trained like mad. then it goes to nothing when some big belly president of your country boycott the game.

How was China picked to host the Olympic if their records were not good?

no... i wana see the Cube!!!

How was China picked to host the Olympic if their records were not good?

Part 1: How China Chosen as 2008 Olympic Host?

The new two-phase host city election procedure, adopted by the 110th IOC Session in December 1999, was used for the election of the host city for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008.

Following this new procedure, cities must pass an initial selection phase during which basic technical requirements are examined by a team of experts and then put forward to the IOC Executive Board. The 10 applicant cities for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008 put forward to the IOC Executive Board were: Bangkok, Beijing, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Paris, Seville, Toronto.

Once approved by the Executive Board, the cities become official Candidate Cities and are authorised to go forward into the full bid process. The five Candidate Cities for 2008 accepted by the IOC Executive Board on 28 August 2000 were (in the order of drawing of lots): Osaka, Paris, Toronto, Beijing, Istanbul.

The full bid process includes notably the submission of a Candidature File to the IOC, followed by the visit of the IOC Evaluation Commission to each of the Candidate Cities. The Evaluation Commission studies the candidatures of each Candidate City, inspects the sites and submits a written report on all candidatures to the IOC two months before the Session which will elect the host city.On 13 July 2001 at the 112th IOC Session in Moscow, Beijing was elected the Host City for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad in 2008.112th IOC Session in Moscow, 13 July 2001: election of the host city for the XXIX Olympiad in Beijing

I think it's stupid to boycott the game. It solves no problem.

i think we should. china has little regard for human rights. all they think about is how they can make more money, even if at the expense of their own people.

The question you should be asking yourself is, why now?

Why not 1 year ago? 2 years ago? Why now? Did China just recently violated human rights?

PS: That Dalai Lama couldn't have picked a better time.

I think it's stupid to boycott the game. It solves no problem.

its an extremely polluted city. why anyone would think holding a world class sporting event there is a good idea is a mystery to me.

I won't support boycott, leave politics out of sports, thank you.

You could only change peoples mind by engaging them, not boycotting them. Hence actions such as this and others like economy sanctions, trade embargo then to be  failure.

The question you should be asking yourself is, why now?

Why not 1 year ago? 2 years ago? Why now? Did China just recently violated human rights?

PS: That Dalai Lama couldn't have picked a better time.

You can't change China's mind.  Especially now with its rising power.  They will tell everyone to go fly kite. 

A boycott will embarrass them a bit.  Make her citizens aware that the world has voiced their disapproval.

This would just their sense of injustice within their citizens, which we have already witnessed by the backlash of "western bias" within Chinese netizens that had serve no point other than angering them in the process.