Pollution in Beijing

This is a very interesting piece on the pollution that the athelets will have to face this summer in the beijing olympics.
http://track.flocasts.org/videos/play/70318-olympic-haze-beijing-08

What do you guys think of the pollution in beijing and how it will affect the athletes?

In the first place, I don't even think the IOC should have picked beijing as the olympic host if they knew that the pollution would be so bad that it would interfere with the performances and athletes in certain events. ie: Geb not running the marathon. The chinese say that they're cleaning up the pollution and that it won't be a problem come august but i think that's a load of bullshit.

yea you can't change years of pollution in a month.

TnF_T wrote:This is a very interesting piece on the pollution that the athelets will have to face this summer in the beijing olympics.
http://track.flocasts.org/videos/play/70318-olympic-haze-beijing-08

What do you guys think of the pollution in beijing and how it will affect the athletes?

In the first place, I don't even think the IOC should have picked beijing as the olympic host if they knew that the pollution would be so bad that it would interfere with the performances and athletes in certain events. ie: Geb not running the marathon. The chinese say that they're cleaning up the pollution and that it won't be a problem come august but i think that's a load of bullshit.

this is what someone told me, I dont know if its true or not: but there was a man from beijing on the olympic commitee who was about to retire and suggested they had the olympics there. It was something along those lines, and it might be wrong I dunno.

exactly, you can't clean up air pollution that factories have caused and the factories aren't gonna stop working for the olympics.

Pinthin wrote:

TnF_T wrote:This is a very interesting piece on the pollution that the athelets will have to face this summer in the beijing olympics.
http://track.flocasts.org/videos/play/70318-olympic-haze-beijing-08

What do you guys think of the pollution in beijing and how it will affect the athletes?

In the first place, I don't even think the IOC should have picked beijing as the olympic host if they knew that the pollution would be so bad that it would interfere with the performances and athletes in certain events. ie: Geb not running the marathon. The chinese say that they're cleaning up the pollution and that it won't be a problem come august but i think that's a load of bullshit.

this is what someone told me, I dont know if its true or not: but there was a man from beijing on the olympic commitee who was about to retire and suggested they had the olympics there. It was something along those lines, and it might be wrong I dunno.

one guy can't decide. it's a vote.

lol, it seems one of runner's trail's own frequent posters made a comment on this video already.

Edit: Holy shit, and Mark Flo made a comment disagreeing with it!

This is the best day of my life >.<

AudienceOfOne wrote:

Pinthin wrote:

TnF_T wrote:This is a very interesting piece on the pollution that the athelets will have to face this summer in the beijing olympics.
http://track.flocasts.org/videos/play/70318-olympic-haze-beijing-08

What do you guys think of the pollution in beijing and how it will affect the athletes?

In the first place, I don't even think the IOC should have picked beijing as the olympic host if they knew that the pollution would be so bad that it would interfere with the performances and athletes in certain events. ie: Geb not running the marathon. The chinese say that they're cleaning up the pollution and that it won't be a problem come august but i think that's a load of bullshit.

this is what someone told me, I dont know if its true or not: but there was a man from beijing on the olympic commitee who was about to retire and suggested they had the olympics there. It was something along those lines, and it might be wrong I dunno.

one guy can't decide. it's a vote.

eh idk it was just what I was told.

ProtestTheZero wrote:lol, it seems one of runner's trail's own frequent posters made a comment on this video already.

Edit: Holy shit, and Mark Flo made a comment disagreeing with it!

This is the best day of my life >.<

lol you're an idiot.

ProtestTheZero wrote:lol, it seems one of runner's trail's own frequent posters made a comment on this video already.

Edit: Holy shit, and Mark Flo made a comment disagreeing with it!

This is the best day of my life >.<

Honestly I didn't even notice they had all the comments until after i made this thread

^yeah, they look at like reasons why it should be in the certain city and stuff, usually like a whole bunch of cities think about it and the comittee narrows it down and stuff. like for example for 2016
non-selected applicant cities
Prague, Czech Repub
Doha, Qatar
Baku, Azerbaijan


narrowed down to candidate cities.
Chicago, US
Madrid, Spain
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Toyko, Japan

WORTH IT

RUNxxWILD07 wrote:^yeah, they look at like reasons why it should be in the certain city and stuff, usually like a whole bunch of cities think about it and the comittee narrows it down and stuff. like for example for 2016
non-selected applicant cities
Prague, Czech Repub
Doha, Qatar
Baku, Azerbaijan


narrowed down to candidate cities.
Chicago, US
Madrid, Spain
Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
Toyko, Japan

I don't even know what the hell that is but the narrowed down cities would probably be pretty polluted too. I know tokyo for sure and possibly rio, dont know about chicago or madrid

Edit: Do you think there will be long term health affects will the pollution...asthma attacks possibly as well?

most cities are polluted now days, its sad.

RUNxxWILD07 wrote:
Prague, Czech Repub
Doha, Qatar
Baku, Azerbaijan

im glad those cities werent picked.

ProtestTheZero wrote:lol, it seems one of runner's trail's own frequent posters made a comment on this video already.

Edit: Holy shit, and Mark Flo made a comment disagreeing with it!

This is the best day of my life >.<

You got owned.

HXC_Runner2012 wrote:

ProtestTheZero wrote:lol, it seems one of runner's trail's own frequent posters made a comment on this video already.

Edit: Holy shit, and Mark Flo made a comment disagreeing with it!

This is the best day of my life >.<

You got owned.

I got owned by Mark Flo today. WTF did you do, huh?

interesting video