I think it's less a matter of allowing or not allowing it that it is a matter of creating a 'useful' aura around it - in many ways, not too different from the Olympics..

Sounds like a great event, although I think it might have done without any 'fever-pitched patriotic rhapsody" at a Chinese runner's besting of a Japanese runner - the two athletes seem, commendably, to have had more admirably sportsman-like attitudes. Smoke machines, technomusic, lasers, Taoist monks and WWII-era fighter pilots might also be eliminated.
Or does anybody think that sports should be celebrated in the manner of a KISS (band) video?

Did anyone commenting here actually go to the event? I'd like to heear comments from those who did.

A beautiful with a very interesting local cultural history smothere with too many tourists and too much tourist junk.

Not sure what the shared 'a unitarian form of government in Communism' is, exactly. Maybe it means supporting a 'socialist market economy'.
However, the health initiative is certainly worthwhile.