Very Sad, though the olympics is irrelevant. Events like the olympics are important as they bring the world together.

Maybe it's true that the focus is more on beating other nations than on it is on sporting excellence for many, but it's better than all out isolationaiism and paranoia.

There is something very sick and inhuman about that kind of cold hearted murder. Where there was a gently shining star there is a vacuum, the empty pointlessness of which I feel in my soul. I fail to understand how that is either not felt or ignored in good conscience by the soldier or his masters.

Climbing permits in the area may become harder to acquire, while refugees may begin to consider similarly "public" routes.

The poor woman. I hope it didn't hurt.