Chris Boyles's blog

About Chris: Chris Boyles is an elite decathlete and member of Team Darfur.  Chris was planning to go to Beijing to serve as "media" guy for Dr. Draeger’s a prominent doctor for decathletes (www.goldmedalmotion.com) and to support friend and 3x Olympic decathlete Tom Pappas (www.decatom.com). On July 24, he was granted a Visa to go to China. On the 28th, he received a phone call telling him that his Visa was no longer valid. He was told that he had to resubmit his Visa application. He was denied and instructed to drive to the Chinese Consulate in DC. He had to fly in from Kansas (was at a track & field competition). Once there, he was told that they couldn't even accept the form because he had been previously denied. Chris has done a number of interviews since his visa revocation, and has seized his new opportunity to speakup about the plight of the people of Darfur.