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via translation - Flame in Japan: Clashes between protesters and Chinese NAGANO (Japan) - Chinese supporters and protesters were beaten with fists and feet on Saturday the passage of the Olympic flame in Nagano (centre), killing at least one injured, said a photographer of AFP. A protester, of unknown nationality, gave kicks in the crowd of Chinese supporters who responded with flag bearers, until the Japanese police separates the assailants, near the train station Nagano. The Japanese television showed a young man, who appears to be Chinese, sitting on the ground with head injuries and blood on his face, surrounded...

Sunday, June 20, 2004 MONTREAL A flag-waving crowd cheered as the Olympic flame relay set out Sunday morning on a 60-kilometre tour of the city to celebrate the 2004 Games in Athens. Spiros Lambridis, head of the Athens 2004 delegation that is staging relays in Olympic cities around the world, Greek consul George Sapounidis and mayor Gerald Tremblay set the flame in motion at a ceremony outside Olympic Stadium in the city's east end, the main venue for the 1976 Games. "This is a symbolic place," said Tremblay. "The Olympic flame has come back to Montreal." Tremblay took the lighted...

Greece Holds Olympic Flame Lighting Thu Mar 25,11:54 AM ET By PATRICK QUINN, Associated Press Writer ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece - The flame that will burn at the Athens Games was lit Thursday amid the ruins of the ancient sanctuary where the Olympics were born 2,780 years ago. AP Photo AP Photo Slideshow: Olympic Torch Olympic Flame Begins Trek Under Scrutiny (AP Video) In a ceremony held at an altar to Hera, a Greek goddess worshipped in Olympia during the original games, the torch was lit by a Greek actress playing the role of a high priestess. Thalia Prokopiou, one of...