Olympic Torch SF

[sk8norcal]

Olympic torchbearers of San Francisco

I notice Danny Way is gonna carry the torch....

[Mile_High_Mark]

Daniel Way, 33, Encinitas; daredevil skateboarder

Too bad it didn't say, "professional skateboarder." Instead, it makes him sound like a sideshow or carnival attraction.

[Blackmore]

Some kids from my school went with teachers to protest the olympics in china, thought that was a little odd

[CL]

So what the hell is Danny Way doing carrying it? He's not even from the Bay, get him the hell outta there.

[sk8norcal]

Originally Posted by clnh5

So what the hell is Danny Way doing carrying it? He's not even from the Bay, get him the hell outta there.

maybe you should try to grab it from him tomorrow....

[CL]

Originally Posted by sk8norcal

maybe you should try to grab it from him tomorrow....

Haha, nah, i'll be at work, plus i actually met him once, very very briefly, and he seemed like a cool guy, besides they usually have guards/police/rentacops/whothef*ckever surrounding the runners.

[southshorelocal]

Originally Posted by clnh5

So what the hell is Danny Way doing carrying it? He's not even from the Bay, get him the hell outta there.

I think it might have something to do with him jumping some big wall somewhere in China, or was it Japan?

[Mile_High_Mark]

He jumped the Great Wall of China. Actually, he went so high and far that he sailed over a nearby blank-deck factory.

[Parallel Man]

Is he going to carry anything or just ride on the bus with the torch?

Word late this afternoon here on the East Coast is the torch run will be cancelled. The IOC is fed up with demontsrators blowing it out every two blocks.

I learned something interesting today. This whole torch relay thing is not some ancient Greek tradition or even something started with the modern Olympics in 1896.

Nope. Anyone wanna guess what Olympic Games organized and managed by a maniacal progandanistic racist regime in 1936 decided the torch relay would be a nice touch?

Oh, and it had nothing to do with Olympic Ideals. Nope. It was touted in the local media as a symbolic return of the Aryan Spirit from ancient lands to its new modern home.

I'm not kidding.

So, it's not like there's a great tradition born of centuries of athletic triumph if this whole flame-from-Mount-Olympus gig gets ash canned. It's just something Josef Goebbels dreamed up to make a splash.

[king edward]

^^^^
Sure it isn't the torch of the Ilumin, or Illuminate or whatever? Like the one the statue of liberty carries?