Should the U.S, boycott the entire olympics, the opening ceremonies or no boycott at all?

[LordJFT]

No poll, just answer. My own view is that we should boycott the opening ceremonies. As an athlete I'm so tired of hearing that politics should be kept out of sports. First of all when you have almost every country in the world gathered to participate in an event, there is no way you're going to completely take politics out of sports. And as a die-hard athlete I also think that there are some things (like people's lives) that are more important than sports. China should not go unchecked for their continued support of genocide.

Now the reason I don't support boycotting the entire olympics is because I do believe that we can do more through competition than we can by avoidance. Which is remembered more, the olympics that didn't happen during world war II or the olympics before that where Hitler's "aryan" athletes got handed a can of whoop-ass by Jesse Owens and other blacks athletes? And which was a bigger slap in the face for the Soviets, us boycotting the Moscow Olympics or beating the Soviets at their own sport (hockey)and going on to win the gold medal? If we boycott the opening ceremonies, China will be embarrassed in front of the entire world, without major drawbacks for our athletes. On the basis of cost-benefit analysis this certainly seems like the best solution. Of course I don't think China ever should have been allowed to host the olympics in the first place, but that's a moot point now.