17 June 2008
China confirms one-day torch relay in Tibet
(AFP) The organising committee of the Beijing Games confirmed that the Olympic torch would travel to Tibet only for a day. "After the Sichuan earthquake on 12 May, the Beijing Olympic organising committee has carried out adjustments to the domestic legs of the torch relay", the committee said in a statement on its website. "The Tibet Autonomous Region leg of the relay will be on June 21, with the relay taking place in Lhasa". Xinhua reported earlier that China had scrapped its plans to take the torch through Tibet for three days due to the quake and that it would be replaced by a trip of just one day, but officials had so far declined comment.