Politics affect the world sport when the country is sinner. China has a lot of sins as Tibet annexation, human rights violence, permament dictatorship, etc... When they came "on the daylight", this everything just has been shifted up.
Actually, I just remembered the Jerusalem fire exists only for Orthodoxes... it seems. I guess God doesn't fire the torch twice for Catholics and Orthodoxes because we celebrate the Easter in other days. This everything was in Jerusalem just before the our celebration so I think it's not Catholic tradition.
And so I have a good idea... let your church will send next year a guy with torch or candle to Jerusalem. It will be interesting, Jerusalem Fire arrives to London too.
