Some common misconceptions of Olympics

"The Olympics are a force for good." Not always! The 1936 Olympics, held in Nazi Germany, were an astonishing propaganda coup for Hitler.

"The Olympic Games are not the place for demonstrations." Aren't they? Actually, the Olympics seem an ideal place for demonstrations. One of many cases is Australian aborigines protested at the 2000 Sydney Games.

"A boycott doesn't solve anything." Well, doesn't it? Some boycotts do help solve some things. The boycott of South Africa by international competitions was probably the single most effective weapon the international community ever deployed against the apartheid state.

Olympics Fallacies by Ann Applebaum AEI (American Enterprise Institue for public research)
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.27700,filter.all/pub_detail.asp