Deputy Dar es Salaam Mayor Ahmed Mwilima, Dar es Salaam Special
Zone Police Commissioner Alfred Tibaigana and Tanzania Olympic
Committee Secretary-General Filbert Bayi left on Thursday for
Beijing to finalize the Dar section of the scheduled Olympic Torch Relay.
The Tanzania Olympic Committee secretary-general told Xinhua
before departing that the three-member group would join in Beijing
other municipal hosts of the Olympic Torch from elsewhere in the
world.
Together they will be discussing the details, both technical and
logistical, about the torch relay which will be held in Dar es
Salaam on April 13.
Eighty runners each covering 250 meters will together complete
the Olympic Torch Relay in Dar es Salaam which starts from the
Station of the Tanzania-Zambia Railway and finishes at the Mnazi
Mmoja Grounds.
The government of Tanzania has already entrusted the Dar es
Salaam municipal authorities to form a special committee to take
charge in arranging and hosting the Dar es Salaam-section torch
relay.
Filbert Bayi is one of two Tanzanians who have ever won medals
at the Olympic Games. Mr. Bayi was the silver medalist in 1980 in
Moscow for the men's 3,000-meter steeplechase event.
(Xinhua News Agency January 11, 2008)