And while attendance at many individual events was surprisingly sparse, the spirit of the Games was overwhelmingly festive and exuberant. I think most Chinese would say unequivocally, yes. It was their coming out party, their moment in the sun, and they clearly relished it. Even the weather cooperated. The Games were a visual delight, filled with color, pageantry and human drama. The United States finished second with 36 gold medals. Alongside the glitz and glamour, there were, perhaps inevitably, a number of Olympic foul-ups, foibles and faux pas.
A more attractive substitute was found, and the song was lip-synched. Meanwhile, travelers to Beijing from the provinces often found their access to public transport and to the Olympic venues themselves blocked by overly zealous security personnel; consequently, tens of thousands of ticket-holders never made it to the Games, a fact which helped account for the embarrassingly sparse attendance at a number of athletic events.
In many cases, whole caravans of colorfully attired office workers and school children were bused in at the last minute to fill half-empty arenas. Of greater concern was the fact that throughout the Olympic festivities there were recurrent, visible incidents of police overreaction.
At least a dozen political activists were arrested after they displayed concern for human rights in Tibet; and sixteen foreign journalists were roughed up during the Games while attempting to cover demonstrations of various sorts.
More disturbing still, dozens of law-abiding Chinese citizens were subjected to extreme police harassment when they applied for permits to hold peaceful demonstrations at three officially-designated free-speech locations in Beijing. After the government publicly announced the new permit system, a total of 77 applications were submitted to the Beijing municipal police. However, all but a small handful of the applications were quickly withdrawn under duress, as the police began interrogating the applicants about their political attitudes and the political activities of their friends, family members, and colleagues.
The remaining applications were categorically rejected. Indeed, not a single police permit was issued during the Olympics. Most troubling of all was the curtain of total media silence that was drawn during the Olympics over an emerging crisis involving contaminated Chinese milk products.
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