IOC - Why No China Smackdown?

I've been watching the Olympics pretty much every day since they started up, and outside of the fact that Michael Phelps' achievement was about as anti-climatic as The Dark Knight taking the top box office slot for close to month, the one thing that had me extremely curious was the whole thing with the Chinese living up to their agreements with the IOC.

What agreements am I talking about? Well, if memory serves the International Olympic Committee (aka the IOC) can’t be considered a smart international body (which is probably an oxymoron in any event) with any kind of true or respected power; because they made a colossal blunder when they awarded China the 2008 Games way back in 2000 (I think it was).

Not only has a country with such human rights abuses ever hosted the games, outside of Nazi Germany (and even Hitler at the time wasn’t executing 10,000 dissident prisoners a year in 1936), but China also threatens the environment with it’s wanton unchecked industrial machine. Shit, U.S. Cyclists are up here wearing masks as they travel around Beijing, hoping to avoid as much pollution as possible – as it will surely fuck up their lungs and respiratory system. I wonder how the marathon participants are going to respond during the actual event?

There’s been lots of talk about some concessions that China was SUPPOSED to do in order to gain the official sanction of IOC, and apparently China hasn’t done or even attempted to do most of these. Surprise, surprise, the Middle Kingdom didn’t answer to anyone.

So the question is, what can the IOC do to enforce its rules and regulations – on a national level – and not be looked at as some lame duck bunch of yahoos. Even that fiasco with the Iraqi national team smacked of, “they don’t know what the fuck they are doing.”

The IOC needs to strip China of its participation in the 2012 Games outright – just not let their athletes compete in the 2010 or 2012 games.