Torchbearer's joy shaken by Sichuan catastrophe

Luis Hong-Sanchez still remembers the excitement he felt when he was selected from a field of 261 candidates to be one of the just eight expatriate Olympic torchbearers.

But when he carried the torch in Jinggangshan, the second leg of the torch relay in Jiangxi province, three days after the deadly Sichuan earthquake, his elation was tempered by the magnitude of the disaster.

"It is hard to describe my feelings," said the multilingual 15-year-old.