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Olympic torch to go on 8,000-mile tour of Britain
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May 18, 2011, Wednesday
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PAST major city landmarks and through remote islands, the Olympic torch will travel the length of Britain during a 70-day relay ahead of the 2012 London Games.
Olympic organizers today named 74 locations where 8,000 torchbearers will carry the flame after it arrives from Greece in exactly a year's time on May 18, 2012.
The 8,000-mile relay will start the following morning at the southern tip of Britain at Land's End in Cornwall and organizers plan to hold evening celebrations on 66 days of the journey.
The flame will pass through England's major cities including Manchester and Birmingham, as well as the Welsh capital Cardiff and Scotland's capital Edinburgh.
The relay will also go off the mainland to visit Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, Orkney and the Isle of Lewis.
The flame will spend the week in London before it is used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium on Friday, July 27, 2012.
"The Olympic flame will shine a light right across every nation and region of the UK and showcase the very best of who we are and where we live," said Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London organizing committee.
The torch could go outside Britain's borders to Ireland, with organizers confirming today that "the feasibility of taking the Olympic flame on a short visit to Dublin is being explored with all the relevant parties."
Organizers said there will be a more detailed breakdown latter this year on where the torch will visit each day in Britain, including sports venues.
The torch has been designed by a London-based studio headed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, but an image is yet to be released.
Olympic organizers today named 74 locations where 8,000 torchbearers will carry the flame after it arrives from Greece in exactly a year's time on May 18, 2012.
The 8,000-mile relay will start the following morning at the southern tip of Britain at Land's End in Cornwall and organizers plan to hold evening celebrations on 66 days of the journey.
The flame will pass through England's major cities including Manchester and Birmingham, as well as the Welsh capital Cardiff and Scotland's capital Edinburgh.
The relay will also go off the mainland to visit Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey, Shetland, Orkney and the Isle of Lewis.
The flame will spend the week in London before it is used to light the cauldron at the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium on Friday, July 27, 2012.
"The Olympic flame will shine a light right across every nation and region of the UK and showcase the very best of who we are and where we live," said Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London organizing committee.
The torch could go outside Britain's borders to Ireland, with organizers confirming today that "the feasibility of taking the Olympic flame on a short visit to Dublin is being explored with all the relevant parties."
Organizers said there will be a more detailed breakdown latter this year on where the torch will visit each day in Britain, including sports venues.
The torch has been designed by a London-based studio headed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, but an image is yet to be released.
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