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ANCIENT OLYMPIA， Greece， April 20 (Xinhua) -- The rehearsal of the lighting ceremony of the Olympic flame which will be burning for the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics was held on Wednesday at ancient Olympia in western Greece， the birthplace of the Games.

Under clear skies， using the rays of the sun， Greek actress Katerina Lechou playing the role of an ancient High Priestess lit the torch out of a parabolic mirror in front of the ruins of the 2，500 old temple dedicated to Hera， a goddess of Ancient Greek mythology.

Accompanied by four dozens of young female and male dancers dressed in light blue and green robes playing the roles of priestesses， goddesses and male youths， Lechou prayed to the Gods to bring peace to the world and help Rio host successful Games.

Under the warm applause of hundreds of local schoolchildren and tourists who watched the rehearsal the flame was then carried inside a replica of an urn to the ancient stadium which hosted the first Olympics in antiquity.

The ritual ceremony ended with the High Priestess handing over to the first torchbearer the torch with the flame and a fresh olive branch cut off by a young boy.

Greek gymnastics world champion Lefteris Petrounias started the rehearsal relay after another female dancer released a pigeon to spread the Olympic ideals of friendship and peace to the world.

This year as Greece， Europe and the world are witnessing the worst refugee crisis after the WWII， the Hellenic Olympic Committee took the initiative to include a Syrian refugee among the torchbearers who will carry the flame in Athens.

The official lighting ceremony will be held on April 21 launching a torch relay across Greece before the Greek organizers will pass the flame to the 2016 Olympic host in a handover ceremony at the Panathinaic Stadium in Athens on April 27.

The second leg of the relay will end in August at the Maracana stadium.

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The Gabonese, currently a top scorer in the German Bundesliga, was nominated in that category alongside four-time African Player of the Year, Yaya Toure of Cote d'Ivoire and Manchester City Nike Air Max TN Kopen , and Andrew Ayew of Ghana and Swansea City FC in the English Premier League.

In the women football category, Cameroonian Gaelle Enganamouit, was also crowned female footballer of the year at the African foremost football awards ceremony annually organized by CAF.

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Cameroon's female national team won the Women Team of the Year award, while Cote d'Ivoire won the same award in the men category. Cote d'Ivoire's trainer, Herve Renard, won the coach of the year award.

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TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo won the African Inter-Club Team of the Year award, among other honorary winners at the ceremony.

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This 1913 family picture of Soong Ching-ling, Sun Yat-sen’s wife (front right), was taken at her home in Shanghai. It is one of the more than 100 original photos to be exhibited from Tuesday. — Xinhua

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Government officials, Sun’s relatives, and representatives from home and abroad will visit the Shanghai Sun Yat-sen Former Residence Museum on 7 Xiangshan Road to commemorate him. This was his last residence in the city and is the best preserved.

Another ceremony will be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Center on November 12, Sun’s birthday.

An exhibition of Sun’s private photograph collection will be launched on Tuesday. This will feature more than 100 original photos and Sun’s personal belongings to tell the story of his life through family and friends. Most of the objects are being displayed for the first time to the public.

The photographs include Sun and some members of Tongmenghui (Chinese Revolutionary League) that wanted to overthrow the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911); Sun’s grandson Sun Zhi-ping when he was a baby; and a shot of Soong Ching-ling’s family taken in Shanghai in 1913.

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A book about Sun’s family is also scheduled to be published during the exhibition, expected to run at least one month.

A contest has also been launched by the Shanghai Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang to invite the public to design souvenirs marking Sun’s anniversary.Designs can be sent to h.