Final torchbearer Yan Hongjun in Ningbo. (BOCOG)Torch Relay Returns in Ningbo
A journey across a five km bridge, one of the longest in the world marked the resumption of the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay Thursday in southern China.
The relay in the port city of Ningbo was to have been held Monday, but that’s when the government declared three days of mourning for earthquake victims.
The route apparently will be shifted ahead three days until mid-June, when the Olympic flame was to reach Sichuan Province. That three-day leg is now to be postponed until August 3 to 5.
The change, announced today in Beijing, allows Sichuan province more time to recover from the quake. And the new timing of the Sichuan will give the event a high level of press coverage. Coming three days before opening ceremony, the media of the world will already be massing in Beijing.
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The earthquake aftermath was a common theme in remarks by BOCOG leaders at the opening ceremony for annual congress of AIPS, the International Sports Press Association.
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