ATHENS, Greece Police scuffled with pro-Tibet protesters before the ceremony.
About 10 demonstrators were detained. They failed to disrupt the
final leg of the weeklong Greek leg of the torch relay from Ancient
Olympia to the marble Panathenian Stadium where the first modern
Olympics were held in 1896.
The protesters chanted "Save Tibet!" and unfurled a banner
that read "Stop Genocide in Tibet."
The torch will arrive March 31 in Beijing on a specially
equipped airliner. It then will travel through 20 countries before
returning to mainland China -- covering 85,100 miles.
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