Foreign runners fluent in Chinese

I am grateful that I am among the few journalists, less than 30 to be exact, to have the chance to follow the torch relay across the mainland. We are divided into two teams working on an alternate basis between the provinces.

While it is a once-in-a-lifetime experience, each of us knows it far better than anyone else, that this is also a challenging task, which can't be achieved without cooperation between each other.

Before our journey, we kind of had a division of our effort. While most of the reporters are English literate, they rely on me, from China Daily, for accurate translations when it comes to interview with foreign torchbearers.