Olympic torch runs through Argentine streets amid protests

Hundreds of spectators cheered as Chinese delegates wearing Argentina’s blue-and-white lit the torch from a lantern that has carried the flame from the site of the ancient Olympic games in Greece. Mayor Mauricio Macri held the slender aluminum torch aloft, then passed it to three-time Olympic windsurfing medalist Carlos Espinola, who jogged into Buenos Aires streets flanked by Chinese bodyguards. Heavyset police huffed to keep up.

A sea of about 500 China supporters in red windbreakers handed out by organisers waved banners and denounced what they called political interference in the ceremony.