The Olympic torch: who are we still missing?

Image by wulfmachine via FlickrWhat amazes me, when I see the current mayhem surrounding the Olympic flame making its little international tour, is the limited number of protests, and the huge fallout they have. Of course, everybody realized this prestigious event would be the focal point of many protests, but neither the Chinese organizers nor the IOC seemed to have expected the problems they have now.
And this is only Tibet. I believe that I once saw a picture of somebody waving a yellow scarf - yellow is the color of also our friends of the FLG - but otherwise they have been scary silent. And our Korean Christian brothers who have been helping their North Korean country men to leave their prison over Chinese soil. Koreans really know how to set up a decent riot. We have not seen any disgruntled workers, because they believe their work has disappeared with the Olympic flame to China. The flame is not stopping in Dafur, I believe, but there was also an issue, or not?
So, considering this potential of crises, the reaction of both the Chinese organizers and the IOC looks pretty clumsy. What is happening now is pretty minor, compared to what could have happened.
Probably, both when we talk about the IOC and the Beijing organizers of the Olympic Games, we talk about institutions that seem out of touch with reality. I have been on different sides of social conflicts, acting in different roles, and for this performance I have only one word: clumsy.