By DPA,
Paris : French Sports Minister Bernard Laporte said Tuesday that he “regretted” the decision by the French National Olympic Committee to forbid the country’s athletes from wearing a pro-human rights badge at this summer’s Games in Beijing.
“First of all, I don’t find the badge very aggressive. It attacks neither China nor anything else. It displays an Olympic phrase, it displays the Olympic rings,” Laporte told Radio Classique.
The proposed badge shows the multicoloured Olympic rings and the phrase “For a Better World”.
Henri Sarandour, the head of the French Olympic Committee, had earlier announced French athletes would not be able to wear the badge at the Games, as had been planned.
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