Raymond reports that Yao Ming will not be the one who lights the Olympic flame on Friday. That’s because it was announced on Monday that he is one of the 841 torch bearers selected for the Olympic torch relay from August 6th thru August 8th.

In this post, Raymond provides an excellent summary of all the different steps of the torch relay’s path from Wednesday through Friday, with photos of all the starting and ending points for each day.

My bet is that Yao will be one of the torch relay runners IN the stadium, and he’ll run a lap around the track. It would be a waste of Yao’s prominence for him to be a torch relay runner outside of the stadium where the spotlight is diminished.

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