Get That Torch World Tour

By Steve Poftak
April 10th, 2008

The Olympic Torch relay is rapidly becoming a farce. San Francisco is the latest stop and its sounds as if chaos reigned.

Unless of course, you limit your reading on the topic to the Communist Party press, which reports

Thousands of people gathered along the route of the relay under a sunny sky to show their support for the torch run in the U.S. city, which is the sixth leg of the torch’s global journey.

Supporters of China’s role as host of the Games were upholding Chinese national flags and displaying the Beijing Olympic mascot Fuwa on the city’s waterfront.

…While anxiously expecting the torch relay, many San Francisco citizens expressed dismay at attempts to link the Olympic Games with politics.

(Don’t miss the People’s Daily’s must-read coverage of Belorussian Fashion Week either.)