>3. The Judges and Olympic Officials deserve to not be honest and resolve this issue through confronting the original issue.

Here would be an interesting resolution to this whole mess. Lets say that after the games, the IOC decides that because of the bribery scandal that lead to Salt Lake City hosting the Olympics in the first place, that this years games should not be considered technically a real Olympics and that nothing that happened really existed underneath the official torch, thus the shine on the Olympic rings will be restored.

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