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Beijing lights flame, to be first city to host summer, winter games

The flame had left Athens on October 19 and travelled to Beijing in a red lantern designed in the likeness of a Han Dynasty tomb artefact, carried by torchbearers decked in white. Beijing lights flame, to be first city to host summer, winter games
Beijing Communist Party Secretary and President of the Beijing 2022 Organising Committee Cai Qi transfers the Olympic flame to a cauldron at the ceremony to welcome the flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, in Beijing, China October 20, 2021. Reuters
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Published at : October 20, 2021
Updated at : October 20, 2021 10:22
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