The journey of the Olympic flame northward along the Italian boot has not been smooth.
Take the arrival of the Olympic flame at the Tower of London just before the Olympics.
By the time the Olympic flame is lit, it will have been carried by 8, 000 touch bearers.
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The Olympic flame burning in a corner of the stadium seemed to be the only source of heat.
In a statement it also said no-one would be more than an hour away from the Olympic flame.
On Friday evening there was a short ceremony at Culdrose as the Olympic flame landed from Athens on board flight BA2012.
Visitors to Vancouver were frustrated that the outdoor Olympic flame was cordoned off behind a chain-link fence (it was quickly opened up).
The primary colour of the uniform is white with gold shards accenting the energy of the Olympic flame at the shoulder and neckline.
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If chosen, he will be given the opportunity to carry the Olympic Flame for one of the legs of the Olympic Torch Relay.
On Monday, 2 July torchbearers will set off from the city and travel to Rugby and Dunchurch as the Olympic flame continues its journey.
John Collins carried the Olympic Flame through Marble Arch Caves on a boat, navigating the underground river on its way to the London Olympics.
Each time the Olympic flame is exchanged between two torchbearers, the gold shard motifs on the uniforms connect the torchbearers visually as the lines link together.
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Before the Olympics, I ran with the Olympic flame in my old home town of Bexhill-on-Sea in the south of England, which was a tremendous honor.
Virgina Prifti, a torcherbearer when the Olympic flame was carried through Wales ahead of the 2012 games, is given an MBE in recognition of her charity work.
The Olympic flame was briefly hidden from the light of day on 5 June 2012 as it was carried through a labyrinth of natural caves in Northern Ireland.
Nepal had agreed to a Chinese request to not allow Everest expeditions in the buildup to the Beijing games when the Olympic flame was being taken up Everest.
When the Olympic flame is ignited at the Olympic Stadium on July 27, it will have traveled through over 1, 000 cities, towns and villages in the United Kingdom.
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Thomas Heatherwick, who created the cauldron in which the Olympic flame burned for the duration of the London Games, helped design the new bus, commissioned by London Mayor Boris Johnson.
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The ceremony for the lighting of the Olympic flame for the 2012 London Olympics is scheduled to take place on May 10 at the Ancient Olympia site, where the museum is located.
An Olympic flame first burned at the 1928 Amsterdam Games but it was not until 1936 that a relay with a torch took shape, under the Nazi regime and sports organiser Carl Diem.
The organizers have overcome a logistical challenge to ensure the Olympic Flame traveled within an hour of 95% of people in the UK, the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey during the 70-day Torch Relay.
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And with the Olympic flame extinguished soon after the lamps of 400 women dressed in flowing white robes had faded to black as Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli sang, the countdown to Vancouver's two weeks of glory had officially begun.
The Olympic flame was jointly lit by four Canadian sports heroes - all-time hockey great Wayne Gretzky, skier Nancy Greene, speed skater Catriona Le May Doan and basketball All-Star Steve Nash after being carried into the arena by paralympian Rick Hansen.
I've been lucky enough to have had a similar view of the United Kingdom as the Olympic flame did as it traveled my country, because in 2009, I ran 43 marathons -- 1166 miles -- around the British Isles, and I saw first hand, how positive and supportive the real British people can be.
Meanwhile, the lighting in Olympia, Greece, of the flame for the Olympic games to be held in Beijing in August was briefly disrupted by protesting press-freedom activists.
It officially ended on Sunday as the Paralympics closing ceremony extinguished the flame in the Olympic Stadium for the final time, before the Paralympic flag was handed to the Mayor of Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian city which will host both Games in 2016.
The Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay, taking the flame around the world before the games begin in August, was always a risk.
Ten weeks from now, the world will watch as the flame arrives at the Olympic Stadium, bringing with it the hopes of a nation.
The flame, in the torch or Olympic lanterns, will also be transported by more novel methods including boat, bicycle, tram and train.
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