Paris edition:

Later in the relay, police threw other protesters to the ground and carried some away. The torch was snuffed out and placed on a bus.

It was extinguished and put on a bus again less than an hour later as protesters booed and began chanting “Tibet!” although none appeared to rush the torch.

The relay resumed but protesters were planning more demonstrations along Monday’s route.

Let me get this straight. Olympic organizers were so afraid that protesters would disrupt and possibly extinguish the Olympic flame that they extinguished the torch and put it on a bus not once, but twice? I thought the whole point of the Olympic flame was that you were never allowed to put it out.