China Carries The Torch

Singer Song Zuying lights a cauldron with the Olympic flame during a presentation at Ditan Park during the Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008.

Dancers perform during a presentation at Ditan Park during the Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008.

Runners pass the Olympic flame in front of the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong on Beijing's Tiananmen Gate during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

A Peking Opera performer beats a drum while waiting for the Olympic Torch to arrive at the Temple of Heaven during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

A child holds a Chinese flag in his mouth as he waits for the Olympic Torch to arrive at the Temple of Heaven during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

A Peking Opera performer stands near the Temple of Heaven as she waits for the Olympic Torch to arrive during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

A paramilitary policeman watches over cheerleaders as they wait for the Olympic flame to arrive in Tiananmen Square during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Beijing, Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

Paramilitary police officers stand behind a Chinese flag near the portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong as they wait for the Olympic flame to pass Beijing's Tiananmen Gate during the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2008.

A performer is held aloft during a celebration prior to the arrival of the Olympic torch at the final stop of the day in Chengdu, China, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008. The torch relay traveled through areas hit by the May 12 earthquake before going on to Beijing.

Men wave flags at a celebration for the Olympic torch relay in Chengdu, China, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008.

A Chinese paramilitary officer photographs journalists at the Olympic torch relay in Chengdu, China, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008.

A nurse, center, and others cheer the arrival of the Olympic torch on its final stop of the day, in Chengdu, China, Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008.

Crowds cheer a torchbearer at Jiuzhou Stadium in Mianyang City, in the May 12 earthquake disaster zone in southwest China's Sichuan Province, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. The Olympic flame was carried Monday around the track of the stadium that just weeks ago housed thousands of Chinese earthquake victims, in celebrations marking the final stages of the global torch relay.

Torchbearer Jiang Min, right, a national model for her devotion to quake-relief work, displays the torch with the next torchbearer Jiao Shihua during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games torch relay in Guang'an City, in southwest China's Sichuan Province, on Sunday, August 3, 2008.

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