1,073 posts tagged Olympic torch

Apparently the Vancouver Olympic Committee (VANOC) is concerned that the olympic flame might not be green enough.  Or orange enough really.  Allegedly the more orange the flame is, the worse it is for the environment (colour theory - more orange = less green?).  They could use cleaner burining fuels,

Shoreditch House Party / Alexa Chung ‘DJ’s’… May 15th, 2008 The whole musical world seems to have the east end of london and its’ bands shoved down its neck at the moment. Luckily, the only thing we were shoving down our necks in London’s east end the other night was mediocre canapes and Sam Sparro’s tongue (we wish…well, not really, given I’m the wrong gender…ewww).

On Thursday, December 16, 1773, the evening before a large shipment of British tea was due to be landed in Boston, Captain Roach appealed to Governor Hutchinson to allow his ship to leave without unloading its tea.

The sacred torch, the cross and the earthquake Posted by Ned Kelly on 15 May, 2008 First, Catherine and I want to make it clear that we are not gloating over the suffering caused by the earthquake in China.   We will ask our local Catholic Priest to offer a special prayer for the earthquake victims at mass next Sunday.

(RUIJIN, May 14) – The first leg of the Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in Jiangxi Province ended in Ruijin amid public donations for relief efforts to victims of a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked neighboring Sichuan Province two days ago. Torchbearer Fu Chunrong lit the flame cauldron.

Attendance and torchbearers of torch relay in each of the next 98 legs across China will dedicate one minute of silence to the lives lost in the massive earthquake in southwest China, the Beijing Games organizers decided Tuesday night.

I saw a lot of things to day. I doubt I can even remember most of them. This is one of those days where you see more unusual things in one day than you normally would in a year. On the way to the conference the immediate discussion was the Olympic torch running through downtown San Francisco.

The Olympic torch relay stops for a minute's silence in China to remember the victims of Monday's powerful earthquake that killed tens of thousands. The torch will go through the quake-hit province of Sichuan in mid-June and charity donation boxes for quake victims will be in place along the path of the flame each day.

It is amazing, but realistic that the Olympic Torch Relay was there yesterday in my hometown, Fuzhou, a city with a history of more than 2300 years! The whole nation witness the symbol of peace spreading around the world and finally coming to the ancient land.

It is amazing, but realistic that the Olympic Torch Relay was there yesterday in my hometown, Fuzhou, a city with a history of more than 2300 years! The whole nation witness the symbol of peace spreading around the world and finally coming to the ancient land.