Torch relay fizzles out in Paris
PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images It was a predictably disastrous day for the Olympic torch procession in Paris. The flame was extinguished a total of four times to protect it from protesters and mayor Bertrand Delanoe cancelled a welcoming ceremony at City Hall after Green Party members hung a Tibetan flag over the building’s facade. As the ...
PATRICK KOVARIK/AFP/Getty Images
It was a predictably disastrous day for the Olympic torch procession in Paris. The flame was extinguished a total of four times to protect it from protesters and mayor Bertrand Delanoe cancelled a welcoming ceremony at City Hall after Green Party members hung a Tibetan flag over the building's facade.
As the confrontations and cancellations continue along the flame's route, one wonders how long the the International Olympic Committee will allow this humiliation to continue. China, meanwhile, continues to insist that the torch will pass through Tibet in June.
It was a predictably disastrous day for the Olympic torch procession in Paris. The flame was extinguished a total of four times to protect it from protesters and mayor Bertrand Delanoe cancelled a welcoming ceremony at City Hall after Green Party members hung a Tibetan flag over the building’s facade.
As the confrontations and cancellations continue along the flame’s route, one wonders how long the the International Olympic Committee will allow this humiliation to continue. China, meanwhile, continues to insist that the torch will pass through Tibet in June.
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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