4 years after lighting up the pool, Luo carries torch

OLYMPIA, Greece: The suspense of who would be the first Chinese torchbearer for the Beijing Olympics gradually built up over the past month.

Yesterday, it ended with Olympic champion Luo Xuejuan chosen for the glory.

After the Olympic flame was ignited yesterday evening Beijing time, the Athens 100m breaststroke gold medalist received the torch from the first torchbearer, Greek athlete Alexandros Nikolaidis, and ran 200m from the grove of Pierre De Coubertin.