China's Olympic champions and torchbearers participate in tree-planting activity

2008-03-24 00:46:26 Xinhua English

Beijing Olympic Games torchbearers participate in a tree-planting activity in front of the tomb of Pierre de Coubertin, the chief founder of the modern Olympics Games in ancient Olympia, Greece March 23, 2008. The ceremony will be officially held at 11 o' clock a.m. on Monday local time. [Xinhua]

China's Olympic champions and Beijing Olympic Games torchbearers, table tennis player Deng Yaping (L) and swimmer Luo Xuejuan participate in a tree-planting activity in front of the tomb of Pierre de Coubertin, the chief founder of the modern Olympics Games in ancient Olympia, Greece March 23, 2008. The ceremony will be officially held at 11 o' clock a.m. on Monday local time. [Xinhua]

Chinese pop singer Wang Lihong (L) and Liu Hongliang plant a tree in the Coubertin Grove, where modern Games founding father Pierre de Coubertin is buried, in Ancient Olympia, Greece, March 23, 2008. Wang and Liu will be torchbearers in the Greek ralay of the 2008 Beijing Olympic flame. [Xinhua]

Beijing Olympic Games torchbearers participate in a tree-planting activity in front of the tomb of Pierre de Coubertin, the chief founder of the modern Olympics Games in ancient Olympia, Greece March 23, 2008.