Archive for April, 2008

Since the torch relay kicked off in Beijing on March 31th, it has passed 19 cities on its route. Now the torch soon will be arrived in Hong Kong, beginning its journey on this beautiful land with 5,000 years civilization and history. In Hong Kong, there will be 120 torchbearers, including top athletes, celebrities, officials, business tycoons, students and teachers. Besides, horses, dragon boats and a sightseeing ship will be used to carry the Olympic flame during the torch relay, which makes me really anticipate its happening.
As we know, the torch relay has gone through a hard time because of Tibet protestors. IOC also had a meeting to discuss whether the torch relay should be cancelled in the future. Many people are quite anxious about the torch relay in Tibet. But I had a faith that it is going to be successful because we have 1.3 billion people and a well organized government to support it. In my point of view, the torch relay is actually a dream relay. It is a dream of the whole world. It is our honor to hold it and pass it and we will defend it with our bodies and souls. As for me, the most excited moment of torch relay will be on the highest peak in the world, Mt. Qomolangma. Make a best wish for that. May it has a best day.

Carrefour has encountered resistance storm since the Olympic torch relay event in Paris. As Labor Day is approaching, boycott against Carrefour has achieved its climax. “Boycott Carrefour, if you were Chinese!”“May 1 to Carrefour cold field”…… several days, messages like those through phone, QQ, MSN and any large Forum such as a fire in a prairie quickly spread throughout the network.
Apparently these spontaneous boycott movements come from people’s patriotism. Some experts said economy, just as Olympics, should not be politicized. Personally I cannot agree any more. However, the reason why people boycott Carrefour is Carrefour itself expressed that it boycotts Beijing Olympics with its homeland, France. One of banners in boycotting impressed me most. It is said Carrefour, it’s not us who abandon you, it’s your mother!
To be honest, none of us wants this happen. It could be better. Hope everything can go back to normal. Hope Beijing Olympics, this big event for everybody can be held successfully!

A few days ago, Vera showed us a movie called “Battle of Sexes”as she promised us. The title refers to a tennis match between Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King. It is filmed according to a true story happened in 1973. Riggs was a tennis star, but he was old and not popular any more. In order to make money and promote his popularity, he came out of retirement as a male chauvinist to challenge one of the world’s greatest female players, claiming that the female game was inferior and a top female player could not beat him even at the age of 55. King accepted his challenge after Riggs beat another top female tennis player, Margaret Court. This match turned out to be a battle of sexes. To save women’s dignity, King got trained in a harsh way and beat Riggs fluently to end this battle.. Personally, I am also inspired by this movie. I have a great conviction that women are as intelligent and powerful as men and women can accomplish anything that men can do. Let’s cheer for King, cheer for women!

The reality for women in sports is unpleasant. However, the reality for black women in sports is cruel. That’s what the author really wants to talk about. When people fight for women’s right, they only care about white women. When people fight for black people’s right , black women are ignored again. They don’t deserve what they suffered. Although some organizations have made some efforts to improve the situation of women in sports, only a few black women benefit from it. The disparaging stereotype which considers black women lack passion in sports and they originate from slavery should be thrown out of the world forever. 21 century is an era of competing fairly and peacefully and we should abandon the old idea and treated everyone as equal.