Athletes won’t be allowed out of village
It could be a tough time for athletes who finish their competitions early or for those looking to get out for a bit of shopping or sightseeing. Access Asia reports that athletes will only be allowed to leave the village to attend venues of their competition. Anyone who has been in Chin can understand this happening. Everyone in China lives, works and studies in a “compound” with surrounding fences and manned security round the clock.
As to the reasons for high security Access Asia says:
“Worries that athletes may leave the Village to do impromptu reporting on human rights or other issues is one; keeping them all close to the people who are sponsoring the Village is another; but the major reason is that if they leave the Village they may be tempted to eat like the rest of us – i.e. not the specially prepared, reared and grown foods that are being made available in the Village (and in the Village only) – and that could mean plenty of athletes failing dope tests due to high levels of residual antibiotics and steroids commonly found in meat on sale in China.”
I can just imagine an athletes defense after he gets busted for drugs, “well I just ate some fried chicken”.
It is more like separating the athletes from the safe food they brought from home.
No food is allowed to be brought in or prepared in the Village, except food prepared by the sponsors. That’s why the teams planned to bring their own food, and make them available to their own athletes in places like their embassy, or associated properties. Now they won’t let the athletes out. This essentially make the athletes their hostages and will have to consume whatever contamination they prepared for them.
Good plan!!!
I can certainly understand why BOCOG would use such draconian methods for the sake of having a ‘perfect’ Olympics.
However I would imagine a lot of scrutiny and criticism of their security methods when the Olympics finally arrive. It’ll be interesting to see reactions from the foreign athletes.
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