This year we had a February 29, which also means that it is an election year and an Olympic year. This summer the Olympics will be held in Beijing, China, much to the dismay of all those anti-communist Americans. Currently the Olympic trials are being held in each country to determine who will represent their country and possibly win the gold.
When the Olympic logo for the 2012 London games first came out, it could only be described as eccentric. People compared it to a swastika, and it was eventually pulled because it caused seizures. Anyway back to Beijing.
The Olympic torch was lit today and began its 136 day journey, taking it across 5 continents and 85000 miles. The torch will even scale Mount Everest on the way to Beijing (for some reason beijing is extremely hard to type.) I remember reading an article about a month ago about this vertical journey. The scientists were assuring everyone that they had done tests and the Olympic torch would not sputter out in the thin air of Mount Everest.
And after the assent and descent, those torchbearers get to journey through the recent hotbead of Tibet. Recently, the Tibetans have been pushing for an end to Chinese mistreatment and the independence of Tibet. Chinese troops have cracked down on the protests, killing 99 Tibetans. The exiled Dalai Lama and other world leaders are speaking out against this violence and many want the Beijing games to be boycotted, like the 1980 summer Olympics in Moscow. French protesters amazing evaded heavy security and disrupted the lighting ceremony today in Athens.
Good night
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