High above her head, she would hold a torch of freedom to light the world.
VOA: special.2010.05.06
Few in that country can forget the impressive sight of Li Ning, himself in a track suit of his own design, being hoisted up at the Bird Nest stadium to lightthetorch during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.
The carriage was piled with luggage and tied bundles, and as she stood some silver fell to the ground, knives and forks and a silver candelabra, catching in the clatter the few gleams of light from thetorch that Roscoe held.