Holding A Torch

A crowd looks on as the plane carrying the Olympic flame arrives at Beijing airport Monday, March 31, 2008. The Olympic torch was re-lit at an elaborate ceremony in Beijing that included President Hu Jintao, signaling the start of a round-the-world torch relay expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China's human rights record. Trouble is expected at stops in London, Paris and San Francisco.

Members of a greeting party wave Chinese and Olympic flags as the Olympic flame arrives at Beijing airport Monday March 31, 2008. The Olympic torch was re-lit Monday at an elaborate ceremony in Beijing that included President Hu Jintao, signaling the start of a round-the-world torch relay expected to be a lightning rod for protests against China's human rights record.

Liu Qi, president of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee (BOCOG), left, holds the Olympic flame on its arrival in China, at Beijing airport Monday, March 31, 2008. Carried in a small lantern, the flame arrived from Greece aboard a chartered Air China plane, greeted at Beijing airport by hundreds of flag-waving schoolchildren.

Officials stand with flower girls and a flag-waving greeting party behind the Olympic flame after it arrived at Beijing airport Monday, March 31, 2008. From left are Chinese State Councilor Liu Yandong, Politburo Standing Committee member Zhou Yongkang, President of the Beijing Olympics Organizing Committee Liu Qi and Minos Kyriakou, president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee.

Chinese paramilitary officers in charge of security around Tiananmen Square prepare for duty in Beijing, Monday, March 31, 2008. Chinese authorities sealed up the area around where Chinese President Hu Jintao presided over the re-lighting of the Olympic torch, signaling the start of a round-the-world torch relay that already has become a magnet for human rights protesters.

A bearer holds the Olympic flame on its arrival at China's Beijing airport Monday, March 31, 2008. The flame was delivered to Beijing's Tiananmen Square for an official welcome ceremony.

Chinese President Hu Jintao, left, receives the Olympic torch from Liu Qi, the president of the Beijing Olympics organizing committee, during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

Chinese President Hu Jintao lights the cauldron during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. Hu's participation in the elaborate ceremony underlined the importance China places on the Olympics and its hope to display a confident, strong nation to the world when the games open Aug. 8.

Chinese President Hu Jintao holds the Olympic torch after lighting the cauldron during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, March 31, 2008, in China. The 85,000-mile relay is the longest in Olympic history and has the most torchbearers - a sign of the vast attention lavished on the games by Beijing, which hopes to showcase China's rising economic and political power.

Chinese hurdler Lie Xiang holds the Olympic Torch after receiving it from President Hu Jintao, far left, during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang holds the Olympic Torch in a sea of confetti after receiving it from President Hu Jintao, background, during the Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. After a one-day stop in Beijing, the flame goes Tuesday to Almaty, Kazakhstan, the start of an 85,000-mile journey back to Beijing.

Chinese hurdler Liu Xiang runs with the Olympic torch across the Gate of Heavenly Peace below a portrait of late communist leader Mao Zedong, Monday, March 31, 2008, in Beijing, China.

A performer prepares for a dance during the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. The ceremony, 130 days before the start of the Olympics, came a week after the lighting ceremony for the Olympic torch in Greece was marred by protests.

Acrobats perform at the Beijing 2008 Olympic torch lighting ceremony, Monday, March 31, 2008, at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China.