Torch to Mount Everest during Olympics

China to relay torch to Mount Everest during Olympics

The Mount Everest, also called Mount Qomolangma, is 8844.43 meters above sea level, the highest peak in the world. China is confident to relay the torch from Olympia, Greece, the cradle of the Olympiad, to the Mount Everest, which was promised when China applied to host the 2008 Olympic Games.

The games, which feature in 21 medal sports and four demonstrating events, attracted 7,450 athletes from 164 countries and regions, a record in the 39-year history of the games.

Some 20,000 delegation officials, coaches, celebrities and family members of the Special Olympics athletes also came to Shanghai while more than 40,000 volunteers, most of them students from China and overseas as well, served the games and the intellectual disabled athletes with passion and love.

The Special Olympics World Summer Games are held every four years. The next edition will be hosted by Athens, Greece in 2011.

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