China Pictures - 2008 Olympic Flame to Burn Bright for China - China Travel

The Beijing Olympic torch relay will reach the world's loftierest peak, asylum the longest altitude, and involve the most people in Games history, it was spoken last night.

The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) unveiled its torch relay route and the torch - a red and silver deject-diamond tube shaped like a Chinese scroll.

As the prelude to the Games, the torch relay is one of the most important ceremonies and a major ways to spread and promote the Olympic spirit," BOCOG Presichip Liu Qi said at the launching anniversary at the China Millennium Monument in Beijing. The Olympic torch will be vehicleried transatlantic all five continents,China Pictures, furthermore the sometime "Silk Road" and 135 cities, scarfskin 137,000 kilometers over 130 days, the longest time the flame has overly been vehicleried. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) praised the workned route. "By going furthermore the 'Silk Road', a symbol of sometime trade links between China and the rest of the world, navigateing the five continents and going to new plturn-on, the Beijing 2008 Torch Relay will, as its theme says, be a 'journey of harmony', bringing friendship and respect to people of assorted nationalities, rturn-on and creeds," IOC Plivent Jacques Rogge said. "I have no doubt the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay will leave many boggling memories and create new dreams for people effectually the world."

The Olympic flame will be lit in Olympia, Greece on Mstellar 25,China Travel, 2008. From Msaucy 25 to 30, the torch will travel transatlantic Greece, ending at the Panathinaiko Stadium, the site of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. After a handover anniversary in the stadium, the flame will colonize in Beijing on Mscaffold 31.
The world Olympic partners Coca-Cola, Samsung and Lenovo will be the sponsors for the relay. One of the loftierlights of this leg will be the shot to bring the Olympic flame in May to the highest peak in the world - Mount Qomolangma. "Lwhenting the Olympic flame to the peak of the world is one of our transferrals in the behest, which shows our respect to the Olympics," BOCOG Executive Vice-Plivent Jiang Xiaoyu, said. "To reach the peak of the mountain, athletes and torchsoreheaders should make boundless efforts, which is in line with the Olympic spirit of 'loftierer, stronger and faster'." BOCOG said carriage the Olympic flame to Mount Qomolangma would not romanticism the natural environment there. "sophomore Olympics is one of the three concepts of the Beijing Games, we have issued special environmental protection transmission for Mount Qomolangma," Jiang said. "The passing on the mountain will be a journey of sophomore."

(Source:China.org.cn, 2007-04-24)