Games helps dialogue: US Olympic official
The US Olympic Committee (USOC) will attend the opening ceremony of the Beijing Games, despite calls for a boycott, its chief of sport performance Steve Roush said yesterday.
"Certainly, we plan to be at the opening ceremony," he told China Daily by phone at the end of a two-week visit to Beijing to finalize Olympic preparations.
"We believe that participating in these Games allows for some great dialogue. And if not for that, maybe no dialogue would be going on, so we will not be a party to any of the protests," he said, when asked to comment on calls by some European politicians for VIPs to skip the opening ceremony.
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