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"This is the Olympics the West Wanted" - Dave Zirin on US Corporations Entering China, Athletes Speaking Out and the Games from '68 to Today

"This is the Olympics the West Wanted" - Dave Zirin on US Corporations Entering China, Athletes Speaking Out and the Games from '68 to Today

As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games open in Beijing, we speak with sportswriter Dave Zirin. "This is the Olympics the West wanted: games where the grandest prize is not a gold medal but a glittering entree to China’s seemingly endless army of potential consumers," writes Zirin. "This is the reason that George W. Bush will attend the opening ceremonies, the first U.S. President to do so on foreign soil." [includes rush transcript]

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