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Earthquake disaster zone celebrates Olympic torch (AP)
Monday, 04 August 2008

Torchbearers pass the Olympic flame during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games torch relay at the Mianyang Gymnasium in Mianyang in southwest China's Sichuan province Monday, Aug. 4, 2008.

In a fanfare-filled ceremony that included dancers and bursts of confetti, the Olympic torch was paraded Monday around a stadium that only weeks ago was filled with earthquake survivors. The sweltering afternoon heat did not faze some 3,000 hand-picked spectators whose singing and cheering filled this city's Jiuzhou Stadium, the third stop for the flame in Sichuan province, where a powerful...


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