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iiyamadude

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  1. I can't see Bush not going. Having said that, he's out soon so he might do just what he wants which is who knows what.

     

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    The Olympic flame relay in Paris ended in farce today when police cut the event short after protests forced officials to repeatedly extinguish the torch.

     

    It was a second day of severe embarrassment for Beijing following similar skirmishes in London yesterday as activists demonstrated against China's recent violent crackdown in Tibet.

     

    The Paris stage of the relay ran into trouble immediately after leaving the Eiffel Tower at lunchtime, even though hundreds of riot police and security officials flanked the torch bearers.

     

    With only 200 metres of the planned 17-mile journey to the Charlety stadium on the edge of the city completed, the scale of the demonstrations meant officials had to extinguish the torch and seek shelter on board a bus.

     

    The torch was relit and handed back to the French athletes carrying it through the streets, but it soon had to be extinguished again.

     

    After this had happened for a fourth time, and with the procession hopelessly behind schedule, police decided not to go ahead with its second section.

     

    Instead, the torch was again loaded onto a bus and driven to the stadium, arriving at around 5.30pm local time (1630 BST).

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