Friday, August 08, 2008
Torch relay culminates Friday (12:08 p.m.)
BEIJING -- The final leg of the Olympic torch relay began Friday in Beijing.
The storied flame has traveled 137,000 kilometers through 130 cities in 130 days. Its record setting journey will culminate tonight at the National Stadium where it will ignite the cauldron to signal the start of the 2008 Olympic Games.
Friday's relay begins at the Peking Man Museum, which was named as a World Heritage site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1987. (From 2008 Beijing Olympics Official Website)
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