Olympic champion lifter to start torch relay in Guangxi
5/6/2008 17:41
China's Olympic weightlifting champion Tang Lingsheng will be the first
bearer at the 2008 Olympic torch relay's Guangxi leg tomorrow, a government
official said today.
Tang, the 26th Olympic Games' weightlifting champion,
will start the 3-day torch relay from Guilin, a world famous tourist
city.
The torch will pass through Bose, where China's late leader Deng
Xiaoping led the famous Bose Uprising in 1929, and finally tour Nanning, the
provincial capital in Beibu Bay Economic Zone which is China's first
international economic center with ASEAN.
The 23rd Olympic Games'
weightlifting champion Wu Shude is set to be the first bearer of Nanning
leg.
A total of 624 torchbearers from all walks of life will run the Guangxi
leg, with the oldest being 92 years old and the youngest 14.
Xinhua
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