Indonesian artist, athletes to carry 2008 Beijing Olympic torch
7/4/2008 16:59
An Indonesian artist and two athletes had been elected bearers of the 2008
Beijing Summer Olympic Torch passing Jakarta as the result of an online "once in
a lifetime experience" selection of at least 664,000 votes.
"Those elected
were artist Luna Maya who garnered 31.9 percent of the votes, followed by Candar
Wijaya (badminton player) with 26.5 percent, and basketball ace Denny Sumargo
with 16.2 percent," Antara news agency today quoted a press release of Samsung
Electronics Indonesia as saying.
The three will appear in the Olympic Torch
Relay International ceremony in Jakarta on April 22. They had been chosen after
the selection was held from September 3 to October 3, 2007.
The Beijing
Olympic Torch will be carried around the world starting on March 25, 2008 from
Greece to 136 cities in different countries or regions, and will arrive back in
Beijing on August 8, 2008.
A total of 22,000 people will be carrying the
torch.
Xinhua
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