Beijing 2008 is over?
The Olympics 2008 have finished and now it will be the turn for London 2012. I’m convinced that the Olympics in the UK will be very succesful and that Europe will support these games as European games. Otherwise it will be very hard to reach the high level achieved by the chinese organizers. These have been the most expensive games of the history and also the most luxurious ones. It sounds strange to think that China, a copmmunist country has organized these luxurious games. This subvertes all the beliefs that many people had on the expectations on China.
Before the games and during the games we’ve seen many protesters asking for freedom in Tibet and, at the same time, for the chinese population. We heard also about the unsustainable polluted air of Beijing and than we’ve realized that sportmen have reached the highest number of records in these Olympic games.
Many people wanted to boicott these games, but at the end the media have showed all kind of happy meetings between locals and visitors to the olympic venues and cities.
We have to admit, the Olympics are the biggest event in the world and it puts together people in such a way that all the problems seems to vanish. Happyness and illusion are spread over the venues and the media give from the games all kind of positive images. There’s a lot of economic interest in this event.
The reunion of so many sportmen, journalisis, voluntaries, tourists, etc., creates a network that is ready to disseminate information and kneowledge all over the world. These have been the most commented Olympic games on the Internet. On Twitterm on facebook, on the bvlogs, in the social networks and obviously on the digital editions of any media, Beijing and China have been on the spot.
China has done it’s biggest possible promotional advertizing and it will be for sure a new era for China after these games. I’m convinced too that these games will push social changes inside China though it’ll be hard and it’ll take a while, but by opening China to the world, it will not only mean entrance of money and investments, but also entrance of new ideas and free thinking. It’s just physycs.
It’s sexteen years now from the Olympics in Barcelona, and the city has changed so much, the country, Spain, has also changed so much, that I’m convinced that this effect will be stronger in China.
It would be interesting to see what networks have been created between chinese and people from the rest of the world. It will be also interesting to see how Internet traffic from and to China to the rest of the world will increase in the next years.
The games are the major networking event of the world too.
