At the same time that Juan Antonio Samaranch , vice-president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), stated with resounding nonchalance that the Olympic Games would be held "yes or yes", the torch, with all its symbolic charge of sacred fire, stopped its march, barely started, to deny it. Or to recommend personal and institutional caution at a time when all optimism, however tenacious, collides with an even more stubborn reality. It is the force of facts, not of desire. He may

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