Stealth Olympic Torch in Argentina

The wandering Olympic torch continues to play “hide-and-seek” with protesters in Buenos Aires, according to Associated Press. Stored in secret overnight, the torch will commence its last relay run through the Americas to the tune of a tango orchestra. Former tennis great Gabriela Sabatini is schedule to run the final leg and then jump over the net (oh . . . no net. Never mind). Since it always rains in BA on April afternoons, the torch will probably travel by bus anyway.

Olympic Torch Run Peaceful

The 2008 Olympic Torch, in San Francisco on its only North American appearance on a 130-day journey from Greece to Beijing, was forced to make a few detours to avoid noisy demonstrators. The new route was uneventful, except for updrafts near Twin Peaks and drifting fog.

Olympics Gamble

China will be betting on the 2008 Olympics, says Shirley Lau of CNN, whether sports betting is legal or not.

Banned in China as a “social evil” in 1949, gambling – a government-run lottery – was reintroduced in 1987 and expanded to a sports-based lottery in 1995. Black market gambling is estimated at about $104 billion, ten times more than the lotteries.