This site is, of course, about the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (and Squamish and Whistler), not about the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. However, the 2008 Olympics are happening sooner. The issues of human rights around the Olympic Games has been around since at least 1936, and they aren't going away anytime soon.

A couple of stories have appeared recently in the Epoch Times about Kai Chen, who played for China's national basketball team. The stories are Olympic Freedom T-shirt Movement Launched and Olympic Freedom T-shirt Movement Launched—Part II, both by Linda Slupski. The Epoch Times has a history of publishing news about China that the mainstream media won't touch due to “bad for business” reasons.

Kai Chen has published a book, One In A Billion: Journey Toward Freedom, which tells his story of China's corrupt government, and the sports apparatus that is part and parcel of it. To draw more public attention to his cause, Chen has started the Olympic Freedom T-shirt Movement.

The movement has begun with a web site, http://olympicsfreedomtshirt.blogspot.com/. The first event will be a five mile run in Los Angeles on August 5. The t-shirts should be available on or after that date. An update will be posted here when they are available, or keep checking Chen's blogspot site.