Do you agree with a boycott of the Olympics? Discuss
T.I.C.K.S
Topic: Sports, politics
Issue: boycotting of olympics
Context: present, Countries involved in Olympics
Keywords/phrases: boycott - to refuse to participate in an activity as a way of expressing strong
disapproval
Stand: I do not agree.
Topic sentence:
- It is not the Olympic spirit to include politics in sports.
- Boycotting of Olympics would cause some of the atheletes to not be able to participate in it, which is a goal of many athletes.
- Boycotting of the Olympics would sour relationships between host country and the countries boycotting it.
- Boycotts in the past had shown that it has little effect on the host countries.
Point: Boycotts in the past had shown that it has little effect on the host countries.
Elaboration: It is pointless to boycott the Olympics when it does little to affect the host country but rather more so on the athletes.
Evidence: America, Japan, West Germany, China and Canada were part of a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, to protest the Russian military action in Afghanistan. The number of nations of the athletes were reduced to only 80.
Explanation: The boycott did not affect the host country much, but many athletes were deprived of their chance to compete in the Olympics.
Link: I do not agree with a boycott of the Olympics as not only do the act not affect the host country much, which is the target for the political reason for the boycott, it affects most greatly the ahtletes who have trained so hard for the particular event, yet is denied the right to participate in the event.
--Qijun--
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