The Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch Relay was launched in Beijing on Wednesday 2 February morning.
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About 1,200 torchbearers will participate in the torch relay, with the youngest being 14 years old and the oldest 86. pic.twitter.com/mfLpiAniwe
The three-day torch relay for the Beijing Games began today at the Olympic Foreign Park, and Luo Zhihuan, the country’s first internationally competitive speedskater, "ran the first leg." The torch "will be carried through the three Olympics zones, starting with downtown Beijing before heading to Yanqing district and finally Zhangjiakou in neighboring Hebei Province." Luo began the leg after "receiving the torch from Vice Premier Han Zheng." Participants in the torch relay have "undergone health screenings and have been carefully monitored, starting from two weeks before the event." The scaled-down torch relay is a "far cry from 2008, when Beijing sent the Olympic flame on a global journey ahead of hosting that year’s Summer Games" (AP, 2/2).
