PARIS, April 7 -- Thousands of rowdy demonstrators forced cancellation of the last leg of the Olympic torch ceremony in Paris on Monday with repeated attacks on the procession, escalating ...

April 9, 2008 -- Angry protesters, riot police, mass demonstrations, arrests for disorderly conduct -- it hasn't exactly been smooth sailing for the Olympic-torch relay.

Alem first worked on the Olympic torch relay in the summer of 1996 in Atlanta. Since then, the company was a consultant to the 1998 Games in Nagano, Japan, and the 2000 Games in Sydney, Australia.