There is a light that sometimes goes out: the Olympic torch protests

A woman attempted to extinguish the torch’s flame in Japan with a squirt gun – and she’s far from the first to stage a protest during the torch relay

Are you kind of, sort of, not really into the fact that the Olympics are still going to happen later this month in Tokyo despite the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that the vast majority of our planet’s 7.8 billion people remain unvaccinated, with alarming outbreaks cropping up worldwide?

If so, you’ve got a friend in Kayoko Takahashi.

液体発射何かなって見たら、水鉄砲でオリンピック反対する女性でした。 pic.twitter.com/NQx9o4Ls9O

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