2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China almost here

The biggest event to hit Asia is only a few days away.

With merely days to go before the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China take place, you can be rest assured that all the preparations, hard work, and effort people put in for this won't be in vain with this being the most prestigious sporting event to hit Asia.

One of the traditions practiced in the 2008 Beijing Olympics is the lighting and relaying of the torch. With the theme, ''Light the Passion, Share the Dream,'' the Nanjing torch relay was soon followed at Hefei for its next stop. Leading the lighting of the torch was Sun Yue, who carried the Olympic torch proudly, reaching the Drum Tower Park and lighting the cauldron. That marks the conclusion of the Nanjing leg of the Olympic torch relay.

Sun, a former captain of the Chinese national women's volleyball team and currently a coach for the Jiangsu team, was the last of 208 torchbearers who ran the relay. Among the torchbearers were Yu Kaixiang, 14, a middle school student, and Xu Zhize, 91, a retired teacher.

Following a minute's silence in remembrance of the earthquake victims in Sichuan, the 12.9-kilometer relay started at East Square of the Olympic Sports Center, taking the torch past numerous landmarks, including Nanjing University. Donation boxes were set up along the route to enable spectators to donate for earthquake relief activities.

In other Beijing Olympic Games preparation, host China will try its best to make Olympic stadiums ready ahead of the Games while it goes all out for earthquake relief, that's according to Xi Jinping, the Chinese vice president.

''The preparation for the Olympic Games has moved into the last and critical stage. We will do it well while working hard for quake relief. We will pay equal importance to the two things and not delay one for the other,'' said Xi after visiting three Olympic stadiums.

Earthquake relief and preparing for the Beijing Olympic Games? Boy, Mr. Xi definitely has a lot on his mind lately huh?

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