[t-net] Re: 2008 Olympic Games
Han Hwie Song
Achirnya obor Olimpiade telah mencapai top dari Mount Everest, untuk pertama
kali dalam sejarah Olimpiade. Banyak pelari naik Mount Everest adalah
minoritas Tibetan.
Salam.
Special report: <http://www.chinaview.cn/08olympics/index.htm> 2008 Olympic
Games
By Wang Jimin and Painba Tsering
MT. QOMOLANGMA BASE CAMP, Tibet, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic flame
made its first trip to Mount Qomolangma as Chinese mountaineers brought it
to the top of the world at 9:12 a.m. Beijing time (0112 GMT) on Thursday.
The torch was lit at about one hundred meters away from the summit and
then relayed upwards by five torchbearers.
Graphics shows the route of the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay onto Mt.
Qomolangma in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on May 8, 2008.
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Graphics shows the route of the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay onto Mt.
Qomolangma in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region on May 8,
2008.(Xinhua Photo)
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The last bearer Tsering Wangmo, an ethnic Tibetan and one of the two
female climbers on the final assault team, carried the torch to the peak.
The unprecedented relay lasted about six minutes.
"The successful ascent does not only belong to the Chinese
Mountaineering Team, but also to our country," said Hu Jiayan, deputy
director of the General State Administration of Sports.
Having promised to take the torch relay to Mt. Qomolangma in their
bidding campaign, the Beijing organizers gathered a team of 36 climbers.
Among them 19 were picked for the final assault starting from the
8,300-meter-high camp in early hours of Thursday.
The final team, dressed in red parkas emblazoned with Olympic logos,
should have reached the top earlier. But in order to get better sunlight and
hence clear-cut live footage for the TV audience, the climbers slowed down
and finally topped the 8844.43-meter (29,035-foot) peak a little more than
six hours later.
The 19-member final assault team consists of both ethnic Tibetans and
Han Chinese, including university students and female climbers. They were
spearheaded by ethnic Tibetan Nima Tsering and deputy head Luo Shen who is
Han Chinese.
About 30 climbers, including the mountaineering team and the cameramen,
scaled Mt. Qomolangma in gusty winds and freezing temperature.
The first four torchbearers are Gigi (female, ethnic Tibetan), Wang
Yongfeng (male, Han Chinese), team captain Nima Tsering (male, ethnic
Tibetan) and Huang Chungui (male, Han Chinese).
The climbers unfurled the Chinese and Olympic flags at the summit. Some
took off their oxygen masks while topping the peak.
"I feel so good as the torchbearer. I know every climber wants to be a
torchbearer," Gigi, a two-time Qomolangma climber, told the China Central
Television (CCTV) ahead of the ascent.
The Olympic flame was kept in a specially-designed metal canister during
the ascent. As the team neared the top, the 28-year-old Norbu Zhamdul, a
three-time Qomolangma climber who carried the lantern on his back, opened
the lantern, ignited the torch and then passed it to the 39-year-old Gigi.
The torch stayed alight and bright against strong winds, as all the
torch, lighter and lantern used for the Qomolangma expedition are high-tech
items capable of withstanding gale-force winds, low temperatures and the
oxygen-thin air atop Mt. Qomolangma.
"We had planned to take the torch to the top in late April, but strong
winds and heavy snow had delayed us again and again. This week we had the
first period of good weather," said Li Zhixin, chief of the Base Camp
Headquarters of the Torch Relay Qomolangma Leg.
"It is a strong team. Everyone is excellent and I feel so proud of them.
We kept our promise and have made our own contribution to the promotion of
the Olympic spirit," added Li, a well-known climber himself.
The Olympic flame's first Qomolangma trip was live televised by the
CCTV.
Tsering Daintar, a younger brother of the last torchbearer Wangmo,
scaled the summit as a CCTV cameraman.
Daintar is a student of the Tibetan Mountaineering School, whose
principal Nima Tsering led Thursday's ascent.
The Beijing Olympic torch relay is the longest and most ambitious one,
traveling 137,000 kilometers across five continents in 130 days. The torch
returned to the Chinese mainland at the beginning of May and is touring
South China's boomtown Shenzhen on Thursday.
Editor: Yangtze Yan
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