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...Chinese are asking those questions at this very minute; many are basking in the residual glow from all those fireworks and gold medals. Despite numerous controversies ahead of the Games - turmoil over the Olympic torch relay, the bloody suppression of Tibetan riots in March, and so on - the Games went spectacularly smoothly. Senior party cadres can give themselves a pat on the back for a job well done...
...herself for some of this mess? "I do," she says. "I hold that responsibility. Being an Olympic softball player, what more can I do? Lisa Fernandez, Dot Richardson, the many greats, they've done so much, and now it's our turn. And what did we do with the torch? So yeah, you do feel let down. Those many girls, they don't look to the International Olympic Committee. They look...
...China's flag and who would light the Olympic flame. The two obvious candidates were hoops star Yao Ming and hurdling legend Liu. When Yao loped in front of the massive Chinese Olympic team with the Chinese flag held aloft, the audience naturally thought Liu would carry the final torch. But that honor went instead to retired gymnast and sports-clothing tycoon Li Ning. Liu didn't even march with the Chinese Olympic delegation. Where...
...though, has been an exception - attracting consistent press attention in the run-up to the Summer Games. Slender and chicly dressed, she looks more like the girl whom you'd want to impress in seminar than a menace to society. But after staging a defiant protest when the Olympic torch passed through Hong Kong in May, the 21-year-old university student became Hong Kong's activist poster child. She also became the bête-noire of many who see her as a photogenic traitor to the Chinese people. Chan brushes aside the criticism as a symptom of Hong...
...beef today is with what she sees as the ethno-centrism of China's majority Han population and its negative impact on Beijing-governed Tibet. "If you love China," she says, "you should care about the welfare of all its people, not just the dominant group." Greeting the Olympic torch in Hong Kong on May 2, she held up Tibet's snow lion flag amid a sea of People's Republic Red, which agitated pro-mainland supporters. Saying that it was for her own safety, police bundled her into a van and drove her away from the torch's route...