The Olympic torch started its final-hours relay this morning at
Zhoukoudian, an UNESCO heritage site in southwestern Beijing suburb which has
yielded many archaeological discoveries.
Amid loud music and cheers, the first torchbearer Feng Gong, one of the best
Chinese comedian, carried the torch and start running at around 7:08 a.m.
It was the final day of a three-day relay in Beijing, about 12 hours before
the Beijing Games opens. A total of 140 torchbearers would run in turn on a
7.9-km route.
The relay will end at about 12:15 p.m. at the No.101 Middle School of
Beijing, also home to the Olympic Youth Camp.
Zhoukoudian was most famous as the site where the archaeological treasure
Peking Man, one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, was discovered.
