04/25/2007 | 2008 Olympic Torch?

Members of the TAR Mountaineering Expedition are busy with training, photo from so called China Tibet Information Center.

As an important part of the coming 2008 Olympic Games, torch passing on the Mt. Qomolangma is under busy preparation. Members of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) Mountaineering Expedition now are busy with training.

As planned, 350 athletes and related reporters will gathered in Tibet for a passing rehearsal of the 2008 Olympic Games in the next March. But uman rights activists are slamming IOC's President for ignoring China's escalating media restrictions. President  Jacques  Rogge, claimed last week that next year's Beijing Olympic Games "will  contribute to the evolution of China" and that "20,000 journalists who come to the Games will show China as it is.  It speaks for itself that will accelerate the social revolution".  Rogge's comment fly in the face of the widely reported incidents of intimidations of both domestic and foreign journalists reporting in China.

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