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Passing the torch through native hands
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 year ago
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Billed as the longest route ever for the Olympic flame in a single country, the torch will be carried by 12,000 runners during its 100-day journey, which will start in November of next year. At least 100 aboriginal communities will be part of the marathon,...
Tags: torch relay, olympic torch, Canada, winter games, Vancouver, olympic flame
Yukon to get Olympic torch run, 'Yukon Day' in deal with committee
Vancouver :: Canada | about 1 year ago
Credibility ukoners can look forward to seeing the Olympic torch in 2010, now that the territory has teamed up with organizers of the upcoming Winter Olympics in Vancouver and Whistler. Olympics, Premier Dennis Fentie and Tourism Minister Elaine Taylor announced...
Tags: olympic torch
Lenovo connects to the Olympics
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility August 15, 2008, 23:58 San Francisco: Tensions were high as the Olympic torch made its way to San Francisco this spring for the only North American stop of its troubled world tour. Deepak Advani, head of marketing at Lenovo, the Chinese personal computer...
Tags: olympics, china, olympic torch, Lenovo, Beijing
Beijing Revokes Visa Of Activist Speed Skater
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Cheek is the co-founder of Team Darfur, a Washington D.C.-based group of athletes hoping to raise awareness about the crisis in Darfur. Getty Images August 6, 2008 ยท The Olympic Games are inextricably intertwined with global politics. A clear reminder...
Tags: Beijing, Bank of China, Team Darfur, olympic torch, Joey Cheek, IOC, revoked visa, torch relay, U.S. Olympic Committee, olympic games
Fresh China earthquake rocks Sichuan disaster zone
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility One person died and 23 were injured today when an earthquake hit parts of western China. The tremor was in the same region wrecked by a quake that killed at least 70,000 people in May. Today's tremor, measuring 6.0 on the Richter scale, shook the Chinese...
Tags: China Red Cross, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, Sichuan Province, sichuan provinces, olympic torch, magnitude quake, Qingchuan County
Torch relay in quake-hit Sichuan starts
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Three months after a powerful earthquake struck Sichuan province in southwest China, the region has welcomed the Olympic torch for the first time. The opening ceremony for this morning's leg began at the former residence of China's late leader Deng Xiaoping.
Tags: olympic torch, Sichuan, torch relay, sichuan province, China-Hungary, Deng Xiaoping, South China, Guangan, Beijing
Internet censorship controversy sparks dissension in IOC
Beijing :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Kevan Gosper, the press commission head, said he was startled to find out earlier this week that Web sites for Amnesty International or others dealing with Tibet, Tiananmen Square or the spiritual group Falun Gong would be blocked in the work rooms for...
Tags: Beijing, China, IOC, beijing olympic, olympic games, Jacques Rogge, olympic torch, games opens
Olympic torch relay in Luoyang
Zhengzhou :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility The Olympic Flame has made a spirited tour through Luoyang City in central China's most populous province of Henan. Nicknamed China's "city of peonies", Luoyang boasts the magnificent Longmen Buddhist Caves and the country's oldest Buddhist temple. The...
Tags: China, olympic torch, Zhang Ziyi, Luoyang City, Anyang City Committee, central china
Designer: Olympic emblem Chinese Seal best presents for Games
Zhengzhou :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility Dancing Beijing was the best gift that the Chinese people presented to the Games. Zhang Wu, 45, a senior designer, was the torchbearer of the last leg in torch relay in Kaifeng City of central China's Henan Province. He lit the caldron after the flame...
Tags: Central China, Henan Province, beijing olympic, torch relay, Beijing, olympic torch, Chinese Calligraphers Association, Luoyang City, Luoyang Sports Gymnasium, Kaifeng City
Olympic torch relay kicks off in Zhengzhou
Zhengzhou :: China | about 1 year ago
Credibility 008 Beijing Olympic Games The Olympic torch relay has just started in Zhengzhou, the capital city of Central China's Henan Province. Henan is the fifth last leg of the torch relay before the flame reaches Beijing. The relay started from the Henan Art...
Tags: torch relay, olympic torch, Central China, Henan Province, Henan University, Henan Art Center, Zhengzhou International Conference Center, beijing olympic, Kaifeng University, Beijing
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