ATR in the News: Pro-Tibet activists hold vigil outside Chinese embassy - 04/23/2008
The Sydney Morning Herald covers the torch relay in Canberra.

IOC told China to ditch relay - 04/20/2008 CHINESE officials were repeatedly told by the International Olympic Committee that it did not want a global torch relay because of concerns about security and the cost for participating countries.

Veteran Olympic commentator Ed Hula has slammed the IOC for caving in to China's demands for a relay. In an editorial in his Around the Rings Olympic newsletter, Mr Hula said the IOC's "misreading" of the political sensitivities of the torch relay route would cost millions of dollars in extra security for host cities.