Beijing - After years of longing for the Olympic dream, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the people in charge of the Beijing Games scheduled to take place in August are facing a nightmare in the shape of a torch. "I'm definitely concerned about what has happened in London in Paris. Concerned is not a good word...I'm deeply saddened by the fact that such an important symbol has been attacked," IOC President Jacques Rogge said Tuesday in Beijing.
The Olympic torch relay, planned to be the most spectacular and international in history, has only managed so far to be the most controversial. The IOC itself is split between those who want to put an end to the adventure and those who want to pursue it to the end.
The organization's executive committee is to decide this week what it is going to do with the world trip of one of the main Olympic symbols. The torch arrived Tuesday in San Francisco - home to one of the largest Chinese communities in the United States - and it was expected Friday in Buenos Aires.
The German Thomas Bach, IOC vice president, told Deutsche Presse- Agentur
