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World News - The Winter Olympics' torch relay kicked off in Beijing yesterday in a low-key event at the Olympic Forest Park, north of the city, as China enters the final stretch of gearing up for the Winter Games. About 1,200 torchbearers will carry it over three days as it passes. Read more at www.tnp.sg
Beijing`s COVID-shortened Olympic torch relay began on Wednesday with basketball great Yao Ming and a Chinese soldier wounded in a bloody 2020 border clash with India among the first to carry the symbolic flame on a journey that will last just three days. The route taking the flame to landmarks including the Great Wall and Summer Palace is far more modest than the globe-spanning tour ahead of Beijing`s 2008 Summer Games that was disrupted by protests along the way.