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By Audrey Nolan

The last part of the Olympic torch relay will not be run due to the continuous chaotic protests from last weekend. The drama saw for at least five times the security officials putting out the torch and rushing it onto a bus as the harsh protests increased in defense of China’s human rights.

Despite the hopes of the French Olympic committee to have the torch carried by runners to its final destination; it is likely the remaining part of the route will be done in a car which will transport the torch to a sports stadium to the southern part of Paris. Even though, there was plenty of security throughout the scheduled itinerary but in two different occasions the torch was endangered by activists who came very close but were finally taken away by police officers.

One of the demonstrators threw water to the torch with the purpose of extinguish it, but his attempt failed and he was also taken by the police. In Paris at the Eiffel Tower’s first floor where the relay began; the situation was already getting tense as there was a crowd of activists who were screaming: “freedom for the Chinese!!”.

The relay continued but once again the crowd of activists’ Tibetan flags soon interrupted it by confronting the torchbearer on a road along the Seine River. The demonstrators did not appear to get within reach of the torch, but its flame was put out by security officers who stepped into a bus. One hour later the torch was taken out again and this time by a women athlete on a wheel chair, when it was halted again by activists from Tibet, so it was taken into the bus again. After they put the torch back on the bus they were throwing plastic bottles, cups and pieces of bread to the vehicle and to a man on a wheel chair.

The torch disappeared back inside the bus a fourth time shortly after a protester approached it with a fire extinguisher near the Louvre Art Museum. Police grabbed the demonstrator before he could start to spray. Police had hoped to prevent the chaos that marred the relay in London a day earlier. There, police had repeatedly to deal with activists angry about China’s human rights record leading up to the Beijing Olympics. One protester tried to grab the torch; another tried to put out the flame in total an outrageous number of thirty-seven people were arrested.

After witnessing the recent events; the Olympics committee representatives are very concerned that this type of happenings will continue to show around the world and may shadow such an important and historical event. The disagreements in China are due to the Tibetans protesting to get their well-deserved freedom from the government. The Olympic Games will take place in Beijing, China from August 8 to 24.

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