But sport can also become a kind of gigantic, distracting screen behind which nasty regimes do outrageous things – the very opposite of the Olympic and World Cup spirit. As the world was watching the football games in Germany, North Korea was testing long-range missiles and Palestinians in the governing Hamas launched attacks on Israel that prompted a bloody invasion of Gaza.
但是，体育也有可能成为一种巨大的分散注意的幕帐，恶劣的政权在这一幕帐后面从事令人发指的事情。这是与奥林匹克和世界杯精神背道而驰的。正当全世界都在观看德国世界杯足球赛的时候，北韩却在试射远程导弹，而哈马斯政府的巴勒斯坦人对以色列发动攻击，促使了以色列对加沙地带的流血性入侵。