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Olympic torch relay The Olympic flame traverses the United Kingdom during a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.
July 13, 2012
U.S. Olympian sprinter Michael Johnson holds up the Olympic torch at Stonehenge in England. The torch is being carried around England in a relay of torchbearers to make its way to the London 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremony.
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July 13, 2012
U.S. Olympian sprinter Michael Johnson poses for photographers holding the Olympic torch at Stonehenge in England.
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July 10, 2012
Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, second left, her husband Prince Philip, second right, London 2012 Chairman Sebastian Coe, right, and 74-year-old Olympic torch bearer Gina Macgregor, left, at Windsor Castle in England.
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July 7, 2012
Torchbearer Zachary Franklin carries the Olympic Flame on a raft down the Lee Valley White Water Centre on the Torch Relay leg between Harlow and Waltham Cross, north of London.
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July 8, 2012
Torchbearer Riessen Hill passes the Olympic Flame to Sarah Toll on the Torch Relay leg between Hatfield and St. Albans in England.
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July 3, 2012
Torchbearer Angela Conibear holds the Olympic Flame next to a steam train before the flame takes a journey on the Great Central Railway during day 46 of the Olympic Flame Torch Relay in Leicester, England.
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July 10, 2012
Torchbearer Sarah Winckless carries the Olympic Flame at the Olympic Rowing Venue, in Eton Dorney, England.
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July 2, 2012
Torchbearer Ali Abdillahi holds the Olympic Flame at the Coventry Cathedral ruins during day 45 of the Olympic Flame Torch Relay in Coventry, England.
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July 10, 2012
Jockey Frankie Dettori leaps from ex-racehorse Monsignor, after they carried the Olympic Flame around the parade ring at Ascot Racecourse during day 53 of the London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay in Windsor, England.
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July 8, 2012
Torchbearer Edward Roberts carries the Olympic Flame on a punt on the River Cam during the London 2012 Olympics Torch Relay leg through Cambridge, England.
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July 8, 2012
Torchbearer Alice Breheny carries the Olympic Flame through Hatfield Hall on the Torch Relay leg in Hatfield, England.
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July 10, 2012
Torchbearer Alan Corbishley carries the Olympic Flame on the Torch Relay leg down Long Walk after leaving Windsor Castle, in Windsor, England.
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July 10, 2012
The Olympic Flame is passed between Sir Roger Bannister and Oxford doctoral student Nicola Byrom on the running track at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford, England.
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May 17, 2012
Actress Ino Menegaki holds a torch and the Olympic flame during the handover ceremony for the 2012 London Olympics at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens.
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May 17, 2012
The president of the Greek Olympic Committee, Spyros Kapralos, passes the Olylmpic torch to Britain's Princess Anne during a ceremony at the Panathenaic stadium in Athens.
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May 17, 2012
A torchbearer runs with the Olympic flame during a ceremony at Panathenaic stadium in Athens.
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May 18, 2012
Britain's Princess Anne carries a lantern containing the Olympic flame for the ceremony to mark the flame's arrival at Cornwall in England.
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May 18, 2012
Soccer player David Beckham holds a torch lit from the lantern carried onboard a special British Airways flight from Greece. The torch was used to light the caldron at Royal Naval Air Station Culdrose in Cornwall.
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May 19, 2012
A Royal Navy Sea King helicopter bearing the Olympic flame lands at Land's End, in southwestern England, where the torch relay began. The torch will be carried all over the British Isles by 8,000 chosen volunteers, mostly local heroes. Its 8,000-mile journey will linger at the iconic sites — Big Ben, Stonehenge, the white cliffs of Dover — and speed past less appealing areas. It ends up July 27 at the Olympic Stadium in London.
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May 19, 2012
Lt. Cmdr. Richie Full delivers the Olympic flame from RNAS Culdrose at Land's End in Cornwall, England.
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May 19, 2012
Ben Ainslie, second from right, the first torchbearer, lights the Olympic torch from the Olympic flame at Land's End, England. Ainslie has won Olympic gold medals in sailing three times.
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British Olympic sailor Ben Ainslie carries the torch on the first leg of its tour of England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Ireland.
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May 19, 2012
Gold medalist Ben Ainslie carries the Olympic torch at Land's End in Cornwall, England.
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May 19, 2012
Ainslie shows the torch to spectators in Cornwall.
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May 19, 2012
An torchbearer carries the torch on the beach near St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
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May 19, 2012
Olympic flame torchbearers exchange the flame on the beach near St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall. The distances covered by bearers on the first day were small.
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May 19, 2012
Johanna Dickinson waves as she carries the torch from the beach at Marazion in Cornwall, England.
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May 19, 2012
An bearer carries the torch through Newquay in southwestern England.
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May 19, 2012
Surfer Tassy Swallow carries the Olympic flame as it leaves Land's End in Cornwall.
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May 19, 2012
Spectators cheer as the Olympic torch relay passes through Sennen in Cornwall.
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May 19, 2012
People watch as the torch passes through Newquay in southwestern England.
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People watch as an Olympic flame torchbearer carries the torch through Newquay, southwestern England.
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May 19, 2012
Nicole Martin carries the Olympic torch between the villages of Rosudgeon and Helston in southwestern England.
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May 19, 2012
The fingernails of torchbearer Sarah Blight are decorated in a Union Jack design as she poses for photographs in front of St. Michael's Mount in Cornwall.
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