Olympics '08: Torch Enters Beijing

OLYPlusSelectPlusSportsOlympics '08: Torch Enters BeijingOlympics '08: Torch Enters BeijingThe Associated PressThe Olympic flame approached the final destination of its long and sometimes contentious global tour Wednesday, greeted by rapturous crowds in the Chinese capital two days before it officially launches the Summer Games. (Aug. 6)((nats))THE OLYMPIC TORCH IS NOW IN BEIJING-- AFTER A LONG AND CONTROVERSIAL JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD AND ACROSS CHINA.((more nats))HUGE CROWDS GREETED THE TORCH AS IT MADE ITS WAY THROUGH THE STREETS OF THE CHINESE CAPITAL AND INTO THE FORBIDDEN CITY.CHINA'S MOST FAMOUS ATHLETE-- THE N-B-A'S YAO MING RAN THE TORCH THROUGH CHINA'S SYMBOLIC TIANANANMEN SQUARE GATE-- AND ONTO THE STREETS.THE TORCH WILL WIND ITS WAY THROUGH BEIJING BEFORE ENDING UP AT THE NATIONAL STADIUM FOR THE OPENING CEREMONIES ON FRIDAY.((nats))THE TORCH RELAY HAS NOT BEEN ALL SMOOTH. 'FREE TIBET' PROTESTORS HAVE GREETED IT ALONG THE WAY IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES.EVEN WEDNESSDAY A GROUP UNFURLED A 'FREE TIBET' BANNER ACROSS FROM THE NATIOANL STADIUM. FOUR PEOPLE WERE TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. ___ ___, The Associated Press.

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[g30hd3]

Free Tibet? Fuck Tibet! Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan before you talk about freedom and democracy idiots.

[jessriy]

Mother-fucking western brain-washed dogs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mother-fucking political reporters from assocatiated press !!!shame on you!

[ervin920]

fuck tibet. even yao would say that. fuck tibet!

[ervin920]

@Chroma2021 best one ever you fuck face.

[fucksomefreedom]

Many Westerners are brainwashed!They do not know the facts

Only know the lies of a butcher!That is the Dalai Lama!

[chinagansta]

free ur mom

[swordofpakistan]

FREE TIBET!

[armeniankobe2495]

fuck Yao Ming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stutwostep]

I never said America was perfect; far from it. But the social injustice and poverty in our country is not a human rights issue like say, Tibet is. The only times we get "nosy" are (usually) when there are human rights issues involved, mostly because other countries, the ones who laugh at us, are too filled with pussies to do anything about it. And you think anyone in America loses sleep over what a bunch of hairy, frog eating assholes like the French think of us? Not quite.

[kratos005]

That's my point..what gives you Americans the right to talk about Chinalike tht when thers a lot of things wrong wit USA: there's Bush for starts, Iraq & middle east wars,a hell of a lot of racism, obesity & GM foods, etc

the rest of the world actually looks down on Americans-always making fun of them. n you are so dam nosy..always having to get involvd wit issues in the rest of the world..

go sort out the poverty & social injustices in your own country before attacking others for their faults

[stutwostep]

Yes, I was aware of the fact that atheletes of other nationalities go off to play for their country in the olympics, a practice I am not particularly enamored by. And whatever good things China does (God only knows what that may be), it tends to be offset by things like their human rights abuses, support of third world dictators, pollution, oppression, Taiwan, censorship and general douchiness. But that's just the government; Chinese citizens are fine people, just trying to get by like everyone.

[kratos005]

Yao Ming was born in China and in the Olympics u play for your own country...retard

its the same for all other athletes in the world

just because he's proud to be part of his country...retard

there are many faults in China but there's also a lot of good things about China that reatrds like yourself would not know about...

and every other country also has faults as well...many people always badmouth about America but at least they have the decency to give a little respect