Police officer carries torch for quake victims

HEFEI: Two days before the torch relay in Heifei, his name was not even on the list of the torchbearers.

Yet by the time Zhu Shijun picked up the torch yesterday from first torchbearer Li Na, diving champion at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, loud cheers and applause greeted the hero although many did not know his name.

The 30-year-old police officer went to Sichuan soon after the May 12 earthquake to help in relief efforts; and came back to Anhui just for the torch relay.