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Just hours after the Olympic flag was handed from Athens to Beijing, two members of the International Tibet Support Network (ITSN) today unfurled a banner reading 'No Olympic for China until Tibet is Free'

Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Activists from the International Tibet Support Network stage a sit-in after they scuffled with police officers as they displayed a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Activists from the International Tibet Support Network display a banner with five bullet holes replacing the Olympic rings in the sport complex of the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004. In the evening the organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games will receive the Olympic flag. (Ap Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

At the closing ceremony of the Athens Olympic games last night Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee, issued the traditional invitation to "the youth of the world" to reassemble in four years' time.

Tibetan protesters and police briefly scuffled at the main Olympic stadium complex Sunday, just hours before organizers of the 2008 Beijing Games were to receive the Olympic flag at the closing ceremony.

On our last night in Lhasa on a rare media visit here, some of us seek to find out how Tibetans feel about the Panchen Lama. The 14-year old boy was chosen by Beijing to one day replace the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader who fled in 1959.

A peaceful protest by six Tibetan activists, representing the worldwide movement for Tibet, was halted today at the Olympic Sports Complex by police officers.

Tsering Yuthok's final moments in her homeland 48 years ago were a blur — a quick goodbye from her mother and father as the then 9-year old fled from Tibet to escape Chinese rule.