Runaway Mascot

It's official (albeit somewhat pseudo-official). One of the official mascot for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing has "defected from the Olympic team because it can no longer stand being used as a puppet to cover up China’s destruction of its homeland". Yingying, the Tibetan antelope (a controversy-courting choice, really) who had seemingly revealed its real name, Yingsel, was actually a representation of track and field, of which designs incorporated elements of Tibetan and Xinjiang ethnic costumes. Lately, the "Tibetan Independence" activists are raging right at the core of their prosecutor in China, with the recent incident when two British Columbian activists were arrested after they hung a 42-square-metre banner reading "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008" in English and Chinese on the Great Wall (Well, they were actually promoting the event with the official slogan for Beijing 2008 but took the liberty of adding some comments), and the arrest of Lhadon Tethong, an infamous Tibetan Independence activist herself who was blogging and vlogging in Beijing in anticipation to next year's Olympic Games. All were released and out of China on Wednesday, 8th August 2007.