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This is Jessica Mendoza, one of the best softball players in the world, who won a gold medal with Team USA in 2004 and will compete again in the Beijing Olympics in August.Mendoza is also a part of Team Darfur, an organization of athletes committed to raising awareness about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. And she says that when she's in Beijing, she'll be wearing her Team Darfur bracelet.
That, however, is as vocal a protest as she'll make of the Chinese government's close ties with the Sudanese government. Katie Thomas of the New York Times reports:
"I feel like there's no one out there who would think that it's a controversial issue to talk about 400,000 people being killed in Darfur right now," said Ms. Mendoza, who helped the American team win a gold medal in Athens in 2004. "But I'm not about to go into China and tell their government what to do."Personally, I'd like to hear Mendoza and other Olympic athletes tell the Chinese government what to do. High-profile visitors have the ability to speak freely in a way that Chinese citizens don't. They'd become heroes in this country if they took advantage of that ability.
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