..yet not protect people such as the Tibetans to which the now modern symbolizm of the Olympic Flame, which the promoters of the Olympics profess such ideals? Is the Torch Relay a romantic symbolic tradition that was revived, post Greece, to our more modern Olympics under ominous political circumstances.....
The Torch Relay, as the opening of the Olympic celebration, was revived in the Berlin Olympiad in 1936 and since then the ..Torch Relay has preceded every Olympic Summer Games. ..Starting from Olympia and carried by the first runner, the young athlete Konstantinos Kondylis, the Flame traveled for the first time hand to hand until it reached the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Since then the Flame has been identified with the beginning of the Games.
Is it even more hypocritical/ironic that 3000 police in Paris, hired to protect a controvercial Torch Symbol, revert to violent brutal force in order to crush the vary rights & freedoms given to those who can protest, or more positively....
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