2012 Olympic Torch will not travel the world

who needs symbolism these days . the IOC , with the generous help of donors , could simply buy an island somewhere and build an infrastructure to host the games in perpetuity .

The fact that a symbolic torch can't be ran across the world due to the level of violence that may result is sad.

Well it wasn't a real long tradition to do so in the first place anyway.

"The torch relay of modern times which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem, with the support of Joseph Goebbels, at the controversial Berlin Olympics as a means to promote Nazi ideology."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Flame

I seen the torch come through my town when I was in Junior High and it was cool but it was just and old man walking. Not much of a torch run but still epic reason to get out of class for nothing. The actual torch was pretty high tech looking.

Well, based on this last Olimpic Torch problem, where every runner was surrounded by cops and yet still, lot of people got arrested and got in trouble.
I would do the same.
Is not the Olimpic's Commitee fault that the world is enraged and filled with lots of problems everywhere. The media has grown outside corporations and now people are not staying quiet this time.

We are headed to a distressed time. We, as a world. so,

I wouldnt do Olimpics at ALL, if there cannot be unity. But since the Olimpics IS business after all, theres nothing we can do about it, beside frowning.

budget cuts
what
u know the economy is bad.

peace-in

Fuck off Olympics committee. Quit trying to cover your own ass.

First of all the IOC sucks for doing this and whoever blames China for this is an idiot...yeah people took advantage of the olympics last year to protest but its stupid to blame the host country for it. Anyways, I really think that the olympics in 2012 being in London and all won't be much of a problem so I hope they reverse this ridiculous decision.

Why not ask the runner if he's comfortable or not, instead of taking away a tradition that pretty much rally's support for the Olympics.

The torch running ceremony had no ancient precedent and was created by Carl Diem with the support of Joseph Goebbels as a way to add mystique to the Nazi government. Its one of the central themes in the classic propaganda film Olympia. I think it's good that we've finally dropped the Nazi ideology part of the games first introduced and specifically invented for the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

Oh yes I bet they're afraid of protests calling for Britian to cease it's occupation of Scotland. XD

Plus, the world is going to end in 2012. haha

I can't imagine that everyone would be running to put out the flames for the London games like they were for the China games (which I found bit bigoted in itself). The IOC is useless anyway and I guess they don't understand the difference between the two situations.

That's what the IOC gets for giving the games to China.

So many protests targeted the torch relay because it was the easiest method to bring attention to the cause of Tibet, Taiwan and human rights.

With the Beijing2008 protests still fresh in the mind, the IOC is afraid of it happening again. Open your eyes IOC: it's not the torch relay that's the problem, it was the host you picked for 2008.

A torch relay for London 2012 would go without much protest.

fuckin' a.

i can't believe the committee is such a giant pussy.

Then let's postpone the games until we can.

What they said^

It's so ridiculous that we can't even do this anymore. What a wasteland this world is becoming if we have so little trust.

Does this action prove that the whole world is a boiling pot on the brink of spilling over towards large-scale chaos?