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Fri 08 Aug 2008Rogge is not for stirring
IS THE spirit of '68 alive and well? Forty years after John Carlos and Tommie Smith punctured the Mexico sky with their immortal salute, the air in Beijing is, well, thick with talk of similar protests over the next two weeks.
When Jacques Rogge, the dapper Belgian who has smoothly ascended to the position of godfather of the IOC, presented himself for questions yesterday afternoon, the assembled masses did their best to try to stir up any kind of storm in a teacup.
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