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Russia's Olympic Woes Compound as a Torch Runner Catches Fire
It's just the latest screeching derailment in the slow-moving train wreck that is the 2014 Winter Olympics torch relay.
Here's a candidate for a new kind of Olympic sport: getting the games' sacred torch across the country without something terribly embarrassing happening.
Were that event to be on the schedule for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, Russia would have already earned a Cardboard Medal of Shame. The superpower seems incapable of keeping a simple fire going. First, a retired diving champion carrying the torch on October 6 saw it blow out right as he was chugging through the Kremlin. Cue a moment of suspense while a bystander struggled to rekindle it with a cigarette lighter: