Sacred Olympic flames set to reunite in Lhasa

LHASA: The sacred Olympic flame that Chinese mountaineers carried to the top of the world on May 8 will be reunited with the one on the main torch relay route tomorrow.

The one-day Lhasa leg of the relay starts in the morning after the torch reaches the city from the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, organizers said.

The torch relay in the Tibet autonomous region, in which 156 torchbearers will take part, has been cut down to one day from the originally planned two days because of the May 12 quake.