By DAVID W. JONES
SEOUL, South Korea (UPI) _ Elation, heartbreak and controversy
colored day three of the Olympics Monday as Janet Evans won the first
American gold medal but a celebrated diver banged his head on a diving
board and a scheduling mix-up robbed a boxer of his chances.
At the site where the Olympic torch was lit Saturday, radical
striving to match the drama of the Games staged a grisly
counter-ceremony in which a priest drank the blood of a freshly killed
chicken.
"We will cut the neck of the (current administration) as we have
cut the neck of this chicken," said a spokesman for the 400
demonstrators at Kun-Kuk University's Democracy Plaza, 10 miles north of
the Olympic stadium.
A shaman, or cult priest, carried the head of a pig onto a stage
festooned with anti-American images before starting his dance with fans,
knives and the live chicken. When he killed the chicken and drank its
blood, several students left in horror.
Students at another school, Dongkuk University, rallied about 200
people for a more traditional protest of the sort that has gone on
almost daily for weeks but failed to dent the public enthusiasm for the
Games.
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