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Chinese Ambassador, Olympic Champion to Join Olympic Torch Relay in London
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Chinese Ambassador, Olympic Champion to Join Olympic Torch Relay in London

 

LONDON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese ambassador to the United Kingdom Fu Ying and double Olympic champion Kelly Holmes will be amongst the 80 torchbearers passing the Olympic Flame across London on April 6.


Broadcaster Sir Trevor McDonald and actress Amara Karan will also run the one-day leg, as part of the worldwide Beijing Olympic Torch Relay, as revealed by Greater London Authority, who organizes the London relay.


Fu Ying said that she was glad to be involved in the event, starting at Wembley Stadium, site of the 1948 Olympic Games, and finishing at the O2 Arena at North Greenwich, which is to be one of the venues for the 2012 Games.


Large crowds are expected, as stars of sports, stage, screen and music and young people recruited from London's schools, will carry the Olympic torch through ten London boroughs.


"Following the outstanding success of the Athens Olympic Torch Relay in London in 2004," said Mayor of London Ken Livingstone. "It is a great honour for our city to participate in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay and once again carry the Olympic spirit of friendship and cooperation between nations across the world."


"In the year that will see the handover from Beijing to London, it is a unique opportunity to generate interest and excitement across the capital as London itself prepares for the Games in 2012."


The London relay also marks the final day of the China in London season and a program of free events is planned at key points along the London route, which will take in Notting Hill, Marble Arch and Oxford Street, Trafalgar Square and the South Bank, the City and East London.


The day will culminate in a free, ticketed event at the O2 Arena.


The Olympic Flame will go to 19 cities on five continents before returning to China and arriving in Beijing for the start of the 2008 Olympic Games on August 8.


From：Xinhuanet Updated：2008-02-22

Mayor: London must invest more to be global capital

 
LONDON, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- London Mayor Ken Livingstone said here on Friday that London must take the 2012 Olympic Games as an opportunity and invest more to develop as a truly global city.


London must remain open and forge ahead with investment despite facing a temporary economic slowdown, the mayor said.


Speaking at his "Global Capital" conference in central London attended by many of the capital's business leaders, Livingstone noted that London will officially take over from Beijing as the host city for the Olympic Games this August. "This will give an unprecedented opportunity to promote London and its businesses internationally and could not come at a better time."


He said that London is placed to weather a global slowdown and emerge with a strengthened economy but it must continue to carry out the massive multi-billion-pound investment in the capital's infrastructure.


The mayor said that in the past London has compared itself as aleading global financial center with Paris and Frankfurt, today London considers itself equal to or even ahead of New York but must now also look to the cities and financial centers in the emerging markets of China and India as benchmarks for measuring future success or risk losing economic momentum.


The Games is providing unparalleled opportunities to regenerate the east of London with thousands of new jobs and new homes expected to be delivered over the coming decade, Livingstone said.


Livingstone said that the city should aim to be in four years the world's most international city, a city that has moved ahead of all others because it has embraced globalization.


The mayor said that London should be on the cutting edge of international technology, finance and business, and that London should be a city in which its citizens have the greatest range of choice and life styles available to them of any places on the planet.


He said that London should take seriously its position as a global citizen by pursuing among the most advance policies on climate change in the world.


Updated：2008-02-22 From：Xinhuanet
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