
Gerald Butler lights the torch on Friday, before being suspended.
At the same time that Juan Antonio Samaranch, vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), affirmed with resounding nonchalance that the Olympic Games were to be held s or s, the torch, with all its symbolic charge of sacred fire, stopped its march, just started, to deny it. Or to recommend personal and institutional caution at a time when all optimism, however stubborn, collides with an even more stubborn reality.
It is the force of the facts, not of the desires. He may
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