Relative of US Olympic coach killed in Beijing

Way to take yourself out dramatically! ;(

Yeah, it's a shame that these sideshows always seem to follow the Olympic games around the globe.

This isn't going to be good for international relations.

This si going to be a natural oocurance now, a lot of turists are in china and there a big target

It's a shame to say it, but there's mental illness in every country.

New information reveals that the victim was tied to the U.S. Olympic team...

"Team officials and state media say a knife-wielding Chinese man attacked two relatives of a coach for the U.S. Olympic men's volleyball team at a tourist site in Beijing."

i wonder if the coach was targeted?

"U.S. Embassy spokesman Richard Buangan said it was ''aware of the reports of the accidents suffered by two American citizens..."

Accident?! Unless they were just walking along and fell on the knife numerous times to cause the injuries sustained or, the attacker had some sort of massive spasm in this knife wielding hand, this was no accident.

Hopefully it will be an isolated insident

I wonder if it is a disgruntled worker who lost his job becuase they are tyring to get rid of the migrant workers during the games.

I guess the pressure of living in such a tightly-controlled society will get to some people more than others, and when they explode, they *really* explode...

Even in countries where they have freedom they still have crazed people that kill for no reason that is beyond random.

I hope the family find peace and comfort in this, what was suppose to be, an exciting once in a lifetime trip.

i am sorry for that, really a pity, you know, it may happen in every country. in some so-called demorcacy country a student can be a shooter and killed his mates even.

That did'nt take long

They do have a billion people. They can't have that many and them all be sane and hold enough national pride to not bring about embarrassment like this upon everyone.

It is very sad when crap like this happens at a world event for athletics. I was in Munich for the 1972 olympics and
the Israelie athlete's were killed, what a sorry time that was too.

Come on, the country's so big there's going to be a higher number of maniacs, you can't blame China for having lots of people.

the proletariat is pissed.

That just stinks! But there are always going to be people in the world that commit crimes like this, unfortunately.

On a side note, I'm glad the police reacted quickly to investigate the scene.

this is really too bad. I wonder the motivation of the crime. Was he one of the displaced? was he anti-American? was he just anti-foreigner? What was happening in his own personal life that brought him to this? Did he know his victims in the least, or were they simply foreign faces? was there an altercation between them before he wielded the knife? was this meant more as a statement to his government, or to the world, rather than a personal vendetta? One thing is for sure, he wasn't feeling the "one world" vibe that they're pushing at these games.

*takes 3rd anti-depressant of the day*

F him . we rule , and we will continue to do so . i hope every person who disagrees will throw themselves off anything which will assure their demise - it would simplify things a lot .

There are many unhappy bunnies living in China and if this guy had gone out with the intention of killing someone to express his feelings.

It could have been any foreign national visting his country american or otherwise.

The embassy spokesman seems to show some contempt when he mentions "the accident" or did he mean to say "incident" Either word he seems compacent about the issue

I wonder if it were someone who was not American... would we have heard about it as much as we are now?