Video of the rerouted Olympic torch relay in San Francisco to avoid Tibetan protesters who had been waiting along the waterfront.
The Olympic torch won’t pass through Taipei. The announcement in the official website of the Beijing Olympics places the blame on Taipei, saying that “the Taiwan authorities violated the stipulations of the Olympic Charter, flagrantly making the torch relay in Taipei a political issue.” More specifically, it’s about the “unreasonable request that the torch relay [...]
Tibetan activists protesting the Chinese invasion of Tibet held their own torch-lighting ceremony at Mt. Olympia in Greece before the police stopped them.
Can you really take politics out of the Olympic Games? Didn’t the U.S. boycott the Moscow Olympics in 1980? Didn’t Steven Spielberg quit as ‘artistic director’ (or is it ‘adviser’?) of the 2008 [...]
