Three days before the Games, a torch ignition ceremony was held in Beijing' Tiananmen Square.
Ignited by Wan Li, who was then Vice- Premier and Chairman of the Sixth National Games presidium, the torch was delivered to Guangzhou for the opening ceremony in the newly-built Tianhe Sports Centre. Wan Li, Tian Jiyun and other leaders were president together with IOC President Samaranch and over 1,000 distinguished guests from other countries and from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. After an opening speech by Wan Li, the more 60,000 spectators watched the performance of the group calisthenics Lofty Aspirations.
Some 8,000 athletes competed in 44 events for 344 gold medals ... http://en.olympic.cn/games/national/2004-03-27/121772.html
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Mimochodem Postcrossing, čtyři analogické dopisnice jsem obdržel od náhodného čínského adresáta, kterému jsem zaslal sérii českých "maxikart" s autoveteránem Václava Zapadlíka.
B. J.