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Posted in Beijing Olympic Games, China on Jul 7th, 2008
(LANZHOU, June 7) — Zhu Jun, a CCTV host, lit the cauldron at the Waterwheel Exhibition Park at 11: 45 a.m., marking the end to the Lanzhou leg of the Torch Relay and the last stop in Gansu Province.
Tian Yu carried the Olympic flame at 8:15 on Monday from Zhongshan Bridge to kick off the [...]
Mayor of Jiayuguan Ma Guangming closes out the Jiayuguan leg of the Olympic Torch Relay after lighting the cauldron atop Jiayu Pass.
The Jiayuguan leg kicked off at 8:15 on Sunday as Yu Haiyan, director of a local iron&steel company, ran as the first torchbearer.
A total of 208 torchbearers participated in the 13.8 km-long relay.
Haoyuan, deputy [...]
Posted in China on May 3rd, 2008
Seventy-two centimeters in height and weighing 985 grams, the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games’ torch is scroll shaped and embellished with a picture of the ‘Lucky Cloud’. As the ‘Lucky Cloud’ is one of the Chinese traditional cultural symbols, the torch is endowed with a Chinese flavor. It differs from previous Olympic torches as it is [...]
