Let The Games Begin

The Olympics are this year in China and since being announced there has always been the underlying conversations regarding the amount of protests that will happen surrounding the Olympic events. Well it didn't take long, the Olympic torch couldn't even make it out of Paris before officials of the torch run put out the flame themselves amidst protesters. The Chinese government has said that there won't be any global backlash to the claims of mistreatment in Tibet and I think everyone that is cashing in on the event wanted to believe that. I am beginning to think that these Olympic Games will have more non-sports related stories then sports related stories and the potential for a huge riot very likely if things spiral out of control quickly during the games...