Special report: 2008 Olympic Games

Torchbearer Wang Yifu (R), head coach of the Chinese national shooting team and the country's most experienced Olympian with six successive appearances from 1984 to 2004, receives the torch from Zhang Jiehui, secretary of the Anshan municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) during the launching ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games torch relay in Anshan, city of northeast China's Liaoning Province, on July 18, 2008.(Xinhua Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    ANSHAN, Northeast China, July 18 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic torch finished its tour in Anshan at 10:00 am local time on Friday.

    The relay in Anshan, the "steel capital" of China, was the second leg of the Olympic flame's tour in northeast China's Liaoning province.

    The torch will then leave for coastal city Dalian for its third and last leg in Liaoning.