Posted by
linqing on Friday, May 18, 2007 9:07:34 PM
I receive the IOC newsletter and everything they do depends on the local government. Last year we tried to set up the Bohai Little League in Tianjin China. In Hong Kong we were approved by the Central Government to do this .
But, talking the Tianjin Sports Ministry we were told they were the only ones that could do this and the Government would take over the Bohai Little League. This was at a meeting in the afternoon. A couple of hours later I got a phone call from the Minister of Sports aide to say for 200,000USD under the table they would allow us to talk to schools and recruit students to learn how to play baseball. I, of course, disagreed.
I also reported this to Little League International. They were as shocked as I was.
Needless to say that there is still no Little League baseball in Tianjin. There is a Major League team .
So both the Central Government and the Tianjin Government Politicize sports all the time, and in this case they both have no face because of the Corrupt Sports Ministry. So to think a few Americans are going to cause havoc with the 2008 Olympics is a joke . They have set themselves up for failure and in 2008 the whole world will see the corruption.