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SPORTS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

SF Gate -- The IOC will consider ending the international leg of the Beijing Olympic torch relay as a result of the anti-Chinese protests. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge says the issue will be discussed by the organization's executive boa.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- The Olympic torch relay was disrupted Monday by protesters in Paris demonstrating against the Chinese government, causing authorities to twice extinguish the flame and put the torch on a bus, according to The Associated Press. The incident came one day af.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Mon Mar 31, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

BBC News -- A lavish ceremony has been held to welcome the Olympic torch to Beijing, which is due to host the Olympic Games in August. President Hu Jintao took part in the televised event at Tiananmen Square, holding the torch aloft before passing it to Chinese sp.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Thu May 8, 2008 @ 8:22am neoform

MSNBC -- A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China’s ambitions for the Beijing games. The climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live television broadca.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Wed Apr 16, 2008 @ 8:08am neoform

CNN -- India cricket star Sachin Tendulkar has pulled out of the Olympic torch relay in New Delhi, just a day before the event. Tendulkar said on Wednesday that a groin injury would prevent him taking part. "I received an invitation from Indian Olympic Associ.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Fri Apr 11, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

BBC News -- Beijing has moved to reassure Olympic officials the troubled torch relay will now go smoothly, after being marred in three countries by anti-China protests. The International Olympic Committee, which met Chinese officials in Beijing, said it hoped the.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- Beijing has said "no force" can stop the Olympic flame relay, as it faces protests on the US leg of its journey. Seven demonstrators have already been arrested in San Francisco after tying "Free Tibet" banners to the cables of the Golden Gate Bridge... Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Tue Apr 8, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- The Olympic torch arrived for its only North American stop amid heavy security Tuesday, one day after its visit to Paris descended into chaos and activists here scaled the Golden Gate Bridge to protest China’s human rights record. Meanwhile, Internat.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Security officials extinguished the Olympic torch for a second time on Monday amid heavy protests during the torch relay in Paris. Police escorted the flame onto a bus, apparently to move it away from protesters. The flame was being carried out of a.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Mon Apr 7, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

SF Gate -- Demonstrators grabbed at the Olympic torch, blocked its path and tried to snuff out its flame Sunday in raucous protests of China's human rights record that forced a string of last-second changes to a chaotic relay through London. The biggest protests.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Fri Sep 21, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

BBC News -- The Olympic torch will not pass through Taiwan because negotiators could not resolve differences with the Beijing authorities, officials have confirmed. The two sides disagreed over the route the torch should take on its way to the Beijing Games in 200.. Read More

SPORTS / NEWS Thu Apr 26, 2007 @ 10:05pm neoform

SF Gate -- San Francisco was selected Thursday to represent the United States when the Olympic torch makes its way around the world next year during the city-to-city relay leading up to the summer games in Beijing, the U.S. Olympic Committee said. Organizers of t.. Read More