Let the Games begin…soon: Jockey Frankie Dettori leaps from ex-racehorse Monsignor after they carried the Olympic Flame around the parade ring at Ascot Racecourse during day 53 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay on July 10, 2012 in Windsor, England. The Olympic Flame is now on day 53 of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.
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Nothing to see here, just the Olympic rings floating down the River Thames.
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Jonathan Kay: Iran stumbles onto evil Jewish plot to control the Olympics
The 2012 London Olympics are more than a year away, but Iran already is threatening to boycott them. According to Bahram Afsharzadeh, secretary general of Iran’s National Olympic Committee, the 2012 Olympic logo secretly spells out the word “Zion,” which makes it “racist.” The Iranians also claim that use of the logo “is a disgracing action and against the Olympics’ valuable mottos.”
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