Torchbearer Lin Li, Olympic swimming champion, holds the torch at the McCovey Cove, the start of the Olympic torch relay in San Francisco, the United States, April 9, 2008. San Francisco is the sixth stop of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay outside the Chinese mainland.
The Olympic torch relay is underway in the western coastal city of
Chinese Olympic swimming champion Lin Li, who was the first runner of the
At one point, Tibetan separatists tried to disrupt the torch relay. They tried to grab the torch, but were pushed back by police escorting the torch relay, a Xinhua correspondent witnessed.
Thousands of people gathered along the route of the relay under a sunny sky to show their support for the torch run in the
Supporters of
Dozens of women dressed in red performed a drum dance to entertain people, drawing applauses from spectators. One dancer, Li Hua, told Xinhua that they traveled about 5 hundred miles from
Siu Yuen Chung, Chairman of the Chinese American Association of Commerce (CAAC), said before the start of the torch relay that, to give the Olympic flame a spectacular reception, tens of thousands of Chinese Americans will come out to cheer the torch relay.
While anxiously expecting the torch relay, many
Shirley Olivo, a 75-year-old
