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As Rogge began the first of five days of meetings Monday, the last run of the Paris torch relay was canceled following protests. Under pressure to speak out on human rights and concerned about a threatened Olympic boycott, athletes want IOC president Jacques Rogge to provide stronger guidelines on how they should conduct themselves. Rogge was asked by the president of the European Olympic Committees to spell out “what athletes can and cannot do” to express political views during the Beijing Olympics.

Rogge said. “The torch relay has been targeted. The International Olympic Committee has expressed its serious concerns and calls for a rapid, peaceful resolution in Tibet.” Rogge also tried to quell talk of any kind of boycott.

 That is terrible if any country or athlete would boycott the Beijing Olympics. I think Chinese government can not handle it, and it will certainly cause great bad impact to Chinese political and economical position in the world. China is a big and responsible country, we prepared a lot for this, and devoted a lot, no matter in money or label force. We sincerely expect and wish these Olympics would be a splendid ceremony. Although there was some unrest factors that tried to disturb and demolish it, a great majority of us are loyal and honesty to the great sporting event. I also saw some Chinese websites talked about this, but mostly they just prohibited reporting the side effect of the torch relay. Sometimes I do believe Chinese government should face its serious problem. More hide, more cover up won’t do anything to help solving this problem, instead, more Chinese people will concern about and even doubt about the ability of the government. I think to some extent, Chinese government should learn from the US, it never prohibited the complain from the public. So I feel a little disappointment to the government and I do hope it can come out a batter and quicker solution to this.