Torchbearer Ian Thorpe, the former Australian freestyle swimmer who has won five Olympic gold medals, runs with the Olympic torch during the relay in Canberra, Australia, yesterday. The bright red of China’s national flag was everywhere on the 15th stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay, as more than 10,000 Chinese Australians and Chinese students came out to welcome the torch. The Olympic flame left for Nagano, Japan, last night for the 16th leg of the global torch relay. The torch relay in Nagano will take place tomorrow.—Shanghai Daily