Unhand him, frog!

Yeah, I’m boycotting the 2008 summer Olympics. And by boycotting I mean not watching them and refusing to talk about them. This photo from the BBC is from a feature about Parisian demonstrators going crazy over Tibet and mucking up the torch run. If there’s one thing that France has a long and glorious history of, it’s student demonstrations and riots.

Highlights include:

• A Green party activist being tackled by security guards as he tried to intercept the torch-bearer (Stephane Diagana) at the Eiffel Tower.
• “On the tower itself, protesters unfurled a huge banner criticising China’s human rights record and depicting the Olympic rings as handcuffs.”
• Torch-bearers were repeatedly “targeted” by demonstrators, resulting in the torch being extinguished three times during the run. It was also concealed in the Olympic bus.
• A torch ceremony at the City Hall was canceled entirely.

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• In pictures: Paris torch protests. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7335043.stm (7 April 2008).