\flora? london marathon? china?

what's the link or are you just proposing to grab the limelight?

The 2008 London Marathon will mark 100 years since the running of the marathon at the 1908 Olympics which was staged over the classic 26 miles, 385 yards distance from Windsor Castle to White City, London.

Disrupting the London Marathon - which has no connection to China or the Olympics - will do more harm that good. If this isn't a provocateur, you need to think very carefully about your strategy!

Disrupting the marathon equates to disrupting an event designed to both bring the world together and replace the energy of war with peaceful competition. While China must be told that it is unwelcome around the world for using its oppressive tactics to tune out the discontent that its policies are creating, and that such a nation state as China has no right to host such a symbol of peace and unity as the Olympics also due to its policies, disrupting the London marathon is merely symbolising the entire breakdown of peace and stability across the globe.

It's a provocation. But no one would be dumb enough to disrupt a massive charity event that has nothing to do with anything apart from a being a bit dull in itself. Plenty of other Olympic bullshit in London to disrupt if you wanna keep the momentum up.

For example SAMSUNG:

"SAMSUNG's Olympics-related Sports Marketing Activities
SAMSUNG is well aware of how important the Olympics are as a marketing tool. The entire SAMSUNG Group focuses on maximizing the communication effect created during the world’s single largest sporting event. SAMSUNG’s involvement with the Olympic movement began as a local sponsor for the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games. SAMSUNG was the worldwide partner in the wireless telecommunications equipment category for the Nagano 1998 Olympic Winter Games, Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and Salt Lake 2002 Olympic Winter Games. This status as worldwide partner in the wireless telecommunications equipment category is set to continue through the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, Torino 2006 Olympic Winter Games and Beijing 2008 Olympic Games."

 http://www.samsung.com/aboutsamsung/welovesports/Sponsorship/Olympic_Marketing.htm

SAMSUNG AFFILIATED COMPANIES:
 http://www.samsung.com/uk/aboutsamsung/samsunggroup/affiliatedcompanies/SAMSUNGGroup_AffiliatedCompanies.html

U.K. : SAMSUNG U.K. Ltd.
SAMSUNG House 3 Riverband Way, Great West Road, Brentford Middlesex TW8 9RE LONDON U.K.
Tel : 44-20-8862-9311, 9312(reception), Fax No : 44-20-8569-7165

Running the London Marathon should be no problem for six Maasai warriors who have come to Britain from their village of Elaui in northern Tanzania as part of a campaign to raise money to find a vital water source (www.maasaimarathon.org).

"Back at home we sometimes run for 5 or 6 days, day and night," Isaya, a young warrior clothed in a red robe and adorned with traditional beaded jewelry, told Reuters in an interview. "Twenty-six miles not far."

He and his fellow warriors, all between 20 and 25 years old, expect to reach the finish line of Sunday's race within four and a half hours.

They will run in traditional dress -- a red "shuka" blanket toga and car-tire sandals -- carrying spears and shields showing their running numbers, and will sing and dance along the 26.2 mile route through the British capital.

"And we will do the whole marathon with no water," Isaya adds. "We often travel for many days, eating only twice a day, and we have no water."

The Maasai warriors, whose role is to protect and help provide for their people, hope to raise enough money to find and access a fresh water source for their community -- something they say could cost up to 60,000 pounds ($120,000).

An estimated 500,000 to one million Maasai inhabit scattered and remote villages across northern Tanzania and southern Kenya, living a semi-nomadic existence.

But years of drought in the region around Eluai, where these six warriors live with their elders and children, is killing their cattle and threatening their way of life with disease and famine.

Two thirds of the children born in Eluai die before they reach the age of five.

"It is a large village which has a very bad lack of water. We have only one small dam and the water from it runs out very quickly," said Isaya.

"It is affecting our people. Our children are dying. We are infected with disease from water which is dark and dirty. We sometimes have years with no rain."

Paul Martin, an expedition leader with the Greenforce charity which has been working with the Maasai since 2005, said ground surveys of the area around Eluai had found an underground water source which could offer the Maasai a lifeline.

"It's an enormously difficult and expensive procedure, but it's so desperately needed that we have to make sure we get something out of there, even if we have to go down to depths of 100 meters

"The Maasai are a proud people ... If they achieve this, they will return to their village as heroes," he said.

And Isaya has no doubt he and his fellow runners will do it.

"The finish line for us is not at the end of the race, it is when we can turn on a tap in Eluai," he said. "I really believe that can happen."

Running for Life, running for Water

I think the poster was referring to the elite runners rather than the charity runners, that would be insane and I don't think that what the poster had in mind.

Who are the 'elite' runners? Is David Cameron running?

To protest at this event over Tibet is I think silly.

Disrupting this marathon would be crazy, and forfeit a lot of the support accrued by the torch protest.
It has ZERO connection with China, its' sponsors have mainstream perception as being makers of a 'goody' product (rightly or wrongly).
And most important of all, it is a much loved, mass participation event which has neverd one any harm to anyone who wasn't willing to embrace that risk.
The image effect resulting from such a protest would be the same as that coming from being seen to torture fwuffy bunny-wunnies in public.