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Aug 5, 2008 7:34 pm US/Central

Olympic Flame Sets Off On Final Relay

 Beijing Games Complete Coverage

BEIJING (AP) ― The Olympic flame is being carried on the final leg of a long and sometimes contentious global tour, two days before the official opening of the games.

Thousands of Chinese who massed on Wednesday at some of Beijing's most recognizable landmarks waved bright red national flags as the first torchbearers left the Forbidden City to carry the flame toward Tiananmen Square.

The arrival of the torch marks one of the final steps in China's seven years of preparations for the games that have cost billions of dollars. Beijing hopes the games will serve as the country's symbolic debut as a modern world power.

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