Olympic flames arrive in Buenos Aires for first time

2008-04-10 17:15:08 Xinhua English

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. (Xinhua)

Liu Jingmin (C), the executive vice president of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the 2008 Olympic Games (BOCOG), walks out of the cabin with the lantern which holds the Olympic flame in his hands at the Ezeiza international airport, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina, April 10, 2008.(Xinhua)

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.(Xinhua)

BUENOS AIRES, April 10 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic flame of the 2008 Olympic Games arrived at 17:00 local time (20:00 GMT) Thursday at Ezeiza international airport from San Francisco.

The Olympic flame is visiting for the first time Argentina's capital, which has dressed up to receive it. The torch relay on Friday will include 80 people in its 13.8 km tour throughout the city.

The icon of the Olympic Games arrived in the only Spanish speaking city of the 135 cities chosen for the 33-day 137,000 km world tour.

Buenos Aires is the ninth stop in the flame's world tour, the longest in the Olympic history.

Olympic flames arrive in Buenos Aires for first time

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