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Only the 1st day of olympics and we are under such sorrow…

1 American tourist (a relative of US team) was killed at Gu Lou(Drum tower),a downtown tour spot. His wife, seriously injured, was in hospital. The tour guide, Chinese, was ok, and the attacker leapt the tower to death(tower has a height of 130 ft, about 40m). The victim,Todd Bachman, is the father-in-law of US men’s volleyball team head coach, and father of 2004 olympic womens volleyball player,Elisabeth Bachman McCutcheon. And the seriously wounded is his wife, who susffered from “life-threatening injuries”, according to MLB.com’s news.(Yes, MLB.com. Chinese media will not say the identity of the victims, just a “tourist” will cover.) 

And that’s the result of more than a million of people in city to protect the olympic? the result of security check on EVERY SINGLE bus, subway…?Maybe it’s an incident, but please, a knife? A knife that can KILL someone? In a tour spot?…I don’t want to say any more. And I don’t want to be GFWed(GFW = Great Fire Wall, China’s internet content filter system)

Mourn the victims. And, sorry for the whole US team.