Olympic Flame

While the Olympic torch continues its tour of Britain, some of the torch-bearers have put their torches up on auction sites such as eBay.

The Olympics flame arrived in Beijing on Wednesday (Tuesday night in the United States). After a long, strange 130-day trip that began in Athens in March.

The Olympic torch returned to China today; Anchor Marco Werman tells how tens of thousands of supporters turned out to see the Hong Kong relay with only a few pro-Tibet protestors who were shouted down.

The World’s Alex Gallafent on the controversial history of the Olympic torch relay: the modern tradition of the relay started on the eve of the 1936 Olympic Games, hosted by Nazi Germany.

Anchor Lisa Mullins speaks with Helen Zia about her decision to be part of the relay team carrying the Olympic torch through San Francisco this week; Zia is a Chinese-American writer and human rights activist.