Amazing achievement makes wait worthwhile

When the Olympic torch team was given the green light late Wednesday night to bring the sacred flame atop Mount Qomalongma the following morning, 51-year-old housemaid Peng Haiyan was oblivious to the news and all else around her.

Already on a bus for an hour from her home near the Buji customs checkpoint, Peng was single-mindedly set on catching the torch relay in Shenzhen's Citizen's Center instead.

"I thought I'd better get a good sleep in the city first to wake up early for the relay," said Peng, an administration staff at a factory in Yueyang, Hunan province, before she arrived in Shenzhen to live and work four years ago.