TOP OF THE WORLD, MA?
Chinese climbers bearing the Olympic flame have reached the summit of Everest, the world's highest mountain. Chinese television showed the team of climbers, carrying special high-altitude torches, reaching the summit at 0920 local time. Huddled in the snow they unfurled flags and cheered for the cameras.
Jeers rather than cheers seems the more appropriate response. The demonstrations against these toxic Chinese Olympic games that met the Torch relay through London, through Paris, through San Francisco, were eloquent testimony to the grotesquerie organised by Beijing and supported by the gutless Olympic movement. It was well seen that the only crowds which cheered on the Olympic Torch were in those nations where democracy is as rare as a drug-free Olympian athlete. The Torch may have reached the top of the world but the reputation of the Olympic Games lies buried in the bloodied Tibetan dirt.
David Vance
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Great headline. The Olympic "movement" is now stranger than fiction.