When is the lighting ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games in Athens, Greece?

With the approval of the International Olympic Committee, the Beijing Olympic flame will be lit according to the traditional ceremony in Olympia, Greece on March 25th, 2008. From March 25th to 30th, 2008, the torch relay was held in Greece. On March 30th, 2008, the torch handover ceremony was held at the Pan-Athens Stadium in Greece (1896, the venue of the first modern Olympic Games). On March 3rd, 2008, a ceremony was held in Beijing to welcome the flame into China and start the torch relay.

The sequence and city of the torch relay route are: Beijing-Almaty-Istanbul-St. Petersburg-London-Paris-San Francisco-Buenos Aires-Dar es Salaam-Muscat-Islamabad-Mumbai-Bangkok-Kuala Lumpur-Jakarta-Canberra-Nagano-Seoul-Pyongyang-Ho Chi Minh City-Taipei-Hong Kong-Macau-Shantou, Hainan Province (Sanya and Wuzhishan). Nanchang)-Zhejiang (Wenzhou, Ningbo, Hangzhou, Shaoxing and Jiaxing)-Shanghai-Jiangsu (Suzhou and Nantong) Lanzhou)-Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (Zhongwei, Wuzhong and Yinchuan)-Shaanxi Province (Yan 'an, Yangling, xianyang and Xi 'an)-Shanxi Province (Yuncheng, Pingyao, Taiyuan and Datong)-Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (. Rizhao, Linyi, Qufu, Taian and Jinan)-Henan Province (Shangqiu, Kaifeng, Zhengzhou, Luoyang and Anyang)-Hebei Province (Shijiazhuang, Qinhuangdao and Tangshan)-Tianjin-Beijing.

On March 3 1 2008, a torch will be reserved for the Olympic flame to climb Mount Everest during the launching ceremony and relay activities to welcome it into China. When the flame reaches Mount Qomolangma, the torchbearer team will carry out the flame summit activities on any day with the climatic conditions for summit during May.

The torch relay of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games lasted 1.30 days, with a total mileage of about 1.37 million kilometers.

It is reported that the global partners of the torch relay of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games are Coca-Cola (China) Co., Ltd., Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. and Lenovo (Beijing) Co., Ltd. The three global partners will provide financial support and service guarantee for the smooth running of the torch relay of Beijing Olympic Games. Global partners are the top sponsors of the Beijing Olympic torch relay sponsorship program and enjoy a series of market rights related to the torch relay granted by BOCOG.

It is also known that the official website of the torch relay of the 29th Olympic Games in Beijing was officially opened in 2008.

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