It turned to be a rough day for the Olympic torch in Paris on Monday. Hundreds of demonstrators who gathered at the Eiffel Tower, PARIS, France who were able to put the torch out as it made its way through the French captal.

“Boycott Chinese goods” and “Save Tibet” read banners held by demonstrators.

“We are doing our best but it will take the world to put pressure on China to help bring democracy and human rights to Tibet,” said Phurbu Dolker, a 21-year-old Tibetan refugee.

First blow -Indian Hockey is out of Olympics - first time in 80 years , second blow - International Hockey Federation (FIH) has warned India that it may lose the right to host the 2010 World Cup, if the Indian Hockey Federation (IHF) is unable to make progress in FIH-backed developmental projects.

The world body says India has not made satisfactory progress in developing the game.

“The FIH reconsidered the conditional awarding of the World Cup 2010 to New Delhi. After having carefully studied the progress made with the project ‘Promoting Indian Hockey‘ as well as the actions taken in the preparation of the World Cup 2010, the Executive Board noted that satisfactory progress had not been made in either area,” the FIH said in a statement.

The FIH executive board, which met in Lausanne, Switzerland recently , said it has already started looking for alternative venues in case the event needed to be shifted out of India.

India’s Chennai IPL (Indian Premier League ) Cricket team franchises, “Chennai Super Kings” announced 24-member team, led by India’s one-day international and Twenty20 captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni at the Chennai Trade Centre auditorium.

• Former India opener Krishnamachari Srikkanth is the team’s brand ambassador.
• Tamil cine stars Vijay , Nayanthara, are the team’s ’star ambassadors’

Click here for Indian Premier League (IPL) match schedulde

24-member team( list here ) will be led by Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the highest-paid IPL Player, and coached by Kepler Wessels.

Chennai Super Kings 24-member Team

1. Mahendra Singh Dhoni (Captain India)
2. Mathew Hayden(Australia)
3. Michael Hussey (Australia)
4. Stephen Fleming (New Zealand)
5. Jacob Oram (New Zealand)
6. Makhaya Ntini (South Africa)
7. Ablie Morkel (South Africa)
8. Muttiah Muralitharan (Sri Lanka)
9. Suresh Raina ( India)
10. S Badrinath( India)
11. Parthiv Patel( India)
12. Joginder Sharma( India)
13. Lakshmipathi Balaji( India)
14. Napolean Einstein( India)
15. Abhinav Mukund( India)
16. Sudeep Tyagi( India)
17. Rashwin( India)
18. Viraj Kadbe( India)
19. Vidyut Sivaramakrishnan( India)
20. Anirudha Srikkanth( India)
21. P Amarnath( India)
22. S Sresh Kumar( India)
23. Arun Karthik( India)
24. Shadab Jakati( India)

The 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will take place from March 24 to August 8, 2008.

The Beijing Olympic Flame began the “Journey of Harmony“ on March 24 2008, from the site of ancient Olympia in Greece.

Here is the Route of the Olympic torch relay for the Beijing Games

Detailed list: http://torchrelay.beijing2008.cn/en/journey/calendar/index.shtml

Olympic Torch Relay will cover approximately 137,000 kilometres (85,128 miles) over a span of 130 days.