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Source: CCTV.com | 04-11-2008 13:55
Buenos Aires is the only stop in South America during the Olympic flame's global tour.
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| Liu Jingmin (Front, C), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), shows the lantern which holds the Olympic flame with Chinese Ambassador to Argentina Zeng Gang(R) and Argentine Olympic Committee (COA) vice president Alicia Masoni de Morea at the Ezeiza international airport, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, April 10, 2008. Buenos Aires is the seventh leg of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay global tour outside the Chinese mainland.(Xinhua Photo) |
Argentina is deploying more than 1000 police officers to secure the Olympic torch relay in Buenos Aires. Fifteen hundred officers from the Coast Guard will also be ensuring safety as well as 3000 volunteers.
This Open Theater is one of the city's landmarks and it's the starting point of the Olympic torch relay in Buenos Aires.
Not far away is the Bridge of Women spanning the Rio de la Plata. Torchbearers will cross the bridge and the torch will then continue its journey by canoe for two stages of the relay.
The torch is then expected to pass by the Casa Rosada the seat of Argentina's government located in front of the Plaza de Mayo. The Obelisk is visible from the Plaza.
At the foot of the Obelisk lies La Avenida Nuevo de Julio, the world's widest avenue where nine stages of the relay will take place.
Torchbearers will go past the Teatro Colon, South America's best-known theater and will then head northwards into the Libertador Avenue.
The torch will go by the Law School of Buenos Aires University and a sculpture of a tulip in a nearby square.
This work features a temperature monitoring device so that the sun makes the flower open when it gets sufficiently hot and close up again at sunset.
The name of the Libertador Avenue is a tribute to Latin America's famous liberator -- General San Martin. The torch will pass by this statue depicting him at the San Martin Plaza.
The final destination of the torch is Argentina's renowned equestrian club.
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| The honor guard stand before the special plane which carries the Olympic flame at the Ezeiza international airport, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, April 10, 2008. Buenos Aires is the seventh leg of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay global tour outside the Chinese mainland. (Xinhua Photo) |
Editor:Xiong Qu
