Olympic torch comes to Yunnan
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Kunming,
Yunnan,
China
Friday, June 6, 2008
Information is pretty scarce about the Olympic Torch and it's schedule for south-west China, but these reports from GoKunming and Treehouse suggest it has been delayed three days due to the earthquake, but it will be in Yunnan next week.
In Kunming they are setting up something in the old Mao square, in Lijiang there are lots and lots of military, and as for Zhongdian, there are stories monks are being paid to leave (free flights to Shanghai).
From Go Kunming
During last week's three-day national period of mourning in China, many teahouses, restaurants, bars, clubs and other 'entertainment' venues closed or were shut down for three days. The Olympic torch relay, winding through mainland China en route to Beijing, also paused for three days.
The torch's delay left Chinese Olympic officials with the new logistical challenge of getting the torch through all the previously planned destinations, but three days faster than before. Not surprisingly, the torch relay schedule has been delayed for several locations, including cities in Yunnan.
Originally slated to pass through Kunming, Lijiang and Shangri-la from June 7 through June 9, the Olympic torch will now pass through the three cities from June 9 through June 11, according to Kunming media reports.
From Treehouse
http://treehouse.ofb.net/go/en/node/2475
The Olympic torch will now (after the three day mourning delay) be in Yunnan (Kunming, Lijiang and Shangri-La) from June 9 to June 11
Yesterday's Yunnan Province, the torch
relay from the organizing committee was informed that the Beijing
Olympic Organizing Committee sent a letter confirmed that the time for
the torch relay in Yunnan Province June 9 to 11, transmission remains a
city of Kunming, Lijiang, Shangri-La.
As Wenchuan earthquake, May 19, 20, 21 was designated as the national mourning day, Therefore the Olympic torch to stop transmission three days. 22, the
Olympic torch in Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, Jiaxing City, the
successful completion of transfer. Subsequently, the remaining
provinces and cities of the Olympic torch relay time have been
postponed. Before the torch was on the rest of the May 25 rest stop,
completed in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, Nantong City of
transmission. Date of Yunnan torch relay, scheduled for June 7, 8, 9,
the final delay to the June 9 to 11, transmission cities unchanged.
Yesterday, reporters from the Kunming City Sports Bureau has also been
confirmed news, they also received a letter of the BOCOG, the sports
staff that the transfer of Kunming normal preparatory work is being
carried out effectively, will not change any time Impact.
The full schedule of the torch relay can be found on Google Maps:
http://ditu.google.com/help/maps/torchrelay/
There are also some photos from Lijiang in preparation of the torch's arrival athttp://www.france24.com/en/20080325-china-says-olympic-torch-protests-shameful-tibet-pressure-mount
