Update from Tendon Dahortsang and others in Olympia:
(March 10, 2008, 3:42 pm) - Minutes ago we re-entered the archaeological site of ancient Olympia, bringing the Tibetan Freedom Torch to the Temple of Hera, the site where the lighting of the first Olympic torch took place. It was moving and inspiring to see Tsultrim Gope, the representative of Team Tibet, hold the Tibetan Freedom Torch in the location that the Olympics was born. Watch the video here. 
Earlier this morning 15-20 Chinese officials, with the cooperation of the local police, stopped us from entering this site. The officials had arrived in Olympia on Sunday, one day after we arrived, clearly with the intention of monitoring and preventing our activities. We carried out the symbolic torch lighting ceremony outside the gate of ancient Olympia, outraged that even thousands of miles away from Tibet, in the remote Greek countryside, the long arm of Chinese oppression was still able to reach us.
We have now successfully brought the Tibetan Freedom Torch in the original site of ancient Olympia in spite of Chinese government efforts to stop it. This torch represents the real commitment of the Tibetan people and our undying determination to regain our freedom.
Tibetans Launch Freedom Torch Relay in Olympia, Greece
Torch Bearers Harassed, Followed, by Greek and Chinese Security
Olympia, Greece (March 10, 2008, 10:50 am) - Tibetans launched the Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay in Olympia today under intense scrutiny and harassment from Greek security and 15 to 20 Chinese government
officials. Despite the excessive police presence, the twelve Tibetans carried out the lighting ceremony in front of the ancient archaeological site of Olympia, Greece, pre-empting China’s Olympic Torch Relay launch there later this month.
“Today, 8,700 kilometres from Beijing, we were watched and harassed by 20 Chinese government agents and dozens of Greek police,” said Tenzin Dorjee, a Tibetan-American detained last April in Tibet for protesting China’s trial ascent of Mount Everest with the Olympic Torch. “The intense opposition to our peaceful torch ceremony underscores China’s constant repression of Tibetans’ undying determination to regain our freedom. Despite this opposition, the Tibetan Freedom Torch will carry the message of truth and resistance worldwide, exposing China’s Olympic lies. ”