One question hung over 2008 Games: Would they change China?

Richard Pound, now the senior member of the International Olympic Committee, wrote about it in his book "Inside the Olympics."“The decision in 2001 to give the games to China was made in the hope of improvement in human rights and, indeed, the Chinese themselves said that having the games would accelerate progress in such matters," Pound wrote in 2004.Francois Carrard, the IOC’s director general at the time, said there was “one issue on the table ... and that is human rights.&r