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OLYMPIC FLAME News, May 17, 2012



Olympic flame reaches London Games chiefs

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Britain's Princess Anne talks with Greek President Karolos Papoulias during a meeting in Athens, on Thursday, May 17, 2012. Princess Anne is in the UK delegation that will receive the London 2012 Olympic flame at the all-marble Panathenian stadium, ...
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Olympic flame handover from Greece to London – live coverage
The Guardian (blog)
Good test of torch technology. #2012 — Richard Williams (@rwilliams1947) May 17, 2012 4.36pm: Boris Johnson was also asked about the torch relay. He said: What the torch relay does is it democratises the whole Olympic experience. The Olympic flame is ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Olympic flame within reach of London Games chiefs
Albany Times Union
(Yannis Behrakis / REUTERS POOL) An unidentified torchbearer, left, passes the flame to Rena Sotiriadou during the Olympic flame relay for the 2012 London Olympics, in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012.
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Flame for London Games formally handed over
Times of India
President of the Greek Olympic Committee, Spyros Kapralos (L) hands the flame over to the Princess Anne of Britain, during the handover ceremony of theOlympic flame on May 17, 2012. (AFP Photo) ATHENS: The flame for the London Olympics, which start on ...
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Olympics-UK police warn against torch relay disruption
Reuters
By Avril Ormsby | LONDON May 17 (Reuters) - British police, on the eve of theOlympic torch's arrival in the UK, warned activists not to spoil the nationwiderelay for the tens of thousands of people expected to turn out to watch and cheer. The flame ...
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Olympic Flame at Acropolis on handover eve
China Daily
A cauldron with the Olympic Flame is seen atop the Athens Acropolis after a Torch relay ceremony May 16, 2012. [Photo/Agencies] Greek world champion in high jump Dimitris Chondrokoukis lit the cauldron on the sacred hill that will host the Olympic ...
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China Daily
Olympic flame within reach of London Games chiefs By The Associated Press ...
Laramie Boomerang
The chairman of London's Olympics Organizing Committee says he is excited at the prospect of taking possession of the Olympic flame and bringing it to Britain. Sebastian Coe says that "once the flame is lit, for all intents and purposes, ...
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Here it comes: Organizers for the 2012 London Games take the flame from Athens
Newser
By DANICA KIRKA | AP | 4 minutes ago in A torchbearer runs with flame during the Olympic flame relay for the 2012 London Olympics, in front of the Greek Parliament in Athens, Thursday, May 17, 2012. The Olympic flame will travel to London,.
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Coe: No pressure on Team GB to select Beckham
SI.com
ATHENS, May 17 (Reuters) - David Beckham will have to earn his place in Britain's Olympic soccer squad on skill and merit like any other player and can expect no special favours, London 2012 organisers said on Thursday. Speaking before the 37-year-old ...
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SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD. : IR News : SAMSUNG SET TO KICK OFF ON-SITE ...
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. : IR News : SAMSUNG SET TO KICK OFF ON-SITE ACTIVATION FOR LONDON 2012 OLYMPIC TORCH RELAY 17 May,2012 - Samsung Electronics, Ltd, a global leader in consumer electronics and a Presenting Partner of the London 2012 ...
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Olympics-Greece prepares to hand flame to London
Reuters
By Alan Baldwin | ATHENS May 17 (Reuters) - Greece formally hands over theOlympic flame to a London delegation led by Princess Anne and including David Beckham on Thursday at the Panathenaic stadium where the first modern Games were held in 1896.
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Olympic Torch is coming to North Somerset!
Portishead People
By thepickler | Thursday, May 17, 2012, 12:36 The Olympic torch was lit in a ceremony in Ancient Olympia on Thursday, May 10, and after a short relayaround Greece it will be on route to North Somerset. The torch will be flown to Britain next Friday to ...
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Sea of red, white and blue set to welcome the Olympic Torch Relay when it ...
Kingswood People
By BeckyFeather | Thursday, May 17, 2012, 12:19 People living along the route of the Olympic Torch Relay, which passes through Bitton, Willsbridge, Longwell Green and Hanham next Tuesday, are being encouraged to decorate their homes to give the ...
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Beckham, Princess To Receive Torch
P.M. News
London 2012's own Posh and Becks will receive the Olympic flame and bring it back to the UK this week when David Beckham joins the Princess Royal at the official handover ceremony in Athens. The former England captain will make the first official ...
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Chinese Olympic medallist Li Ning eager to participate in Olympic Flame ...
Xinhua
ATHENS, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Olympic medallist Li Ning expressed his eagerness to participate as one of the last torchbearers in the Olympic FlameHandover ceremony for the 2012 London Games to be held in Athens on Thursday evening.
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OLYMPICS: Ultimate torch guide for Flax Bourton, Backwell, Nailsea and Failand
Nailsea People
By Carol_Deacon | Thursday, May 17, 2012, 16:37 If you want to know where to stand, where to eat and the full timetable read on... But be warend early morning commuters might as well grab a bite of breakfast in North Somerset on Wednesday before ...
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CHOSEN: Harry Carter – Olympic Torchbearer!
Barry and District News
... join the adults selected to carry the London 2012 Olympic Flame! Year 7 Barry Comprehensive pupil Harry Carter and 17-year-old Bishop of Llandaff pupil David Evans will be the youngest to take part in the Barry section of thetorch relay on May 26.
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David Beckham to bring the Olympic Flame to UK
Event Magazine
Football star David Beckham will receive the Olympic Flame when it is officially handed over to Britain in a ceremony in Greece today (17 May). Beckham will be joined by five young people from around the UK for the Olympic FlameHandover Ceremony, ...
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St Albans set to receive Olympic torch
Royston Crow
London 2012 ambassador David Beckham will bring the flame back to the UK after attending the Olympic flame handover ceremony today, May 17, in Athens. From Saturday, May 19, torchbearers will begin carrying the flame to within an hour of 95 per cent of ...
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Royston Crow
Pre-season plans started
This is Somerset
Salisbury travel to the AlderSmith Stadium on Tuesday, July 17, while Rovers will be the visitors on Saturday, May 21. Frome Town FC Supporters Club's AGM takes place on Monday. The meeting is at The Venue at Frome Town FC, starting at 7.30pm. 1.
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GoogleBig » Archive » 2012 London Olympics Torch Relay Maps
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2012 London Olympics Torch Relay Maps. May 172012 | Category: Google Maps. The Olympic flame is today being handed to the organisers of the London Games at a ceremony in Athens. The flame will arrive in the UK on Friday before it ...
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The Olympic Torch Relay countdown begins | Isle News
By Jamesq
The Olympic Flame was lit in Greece on 10 May and will travel on board a special gold-liveried aircraft to Cornwall ahead of the Torch Relay, which starts on this Saturday, 19 May. Ancient Games Organised by the Hellenic Olympic ...View the ...
Isle News
BBC Cymru Wales follows Olympic Torch Relay in Wales
BBC Cymru Wales follows Olympic Torch Relay in Wales. From BBC Media Centre Posted 17 May 2012, 14:14. The Olympic flame reaches Wales on its epic journey around the UK on Friday, May 25. Read the whole story ...
Media UK: Tv news
Olympic flame to start its journey to Jolly Old - Sports Blog | Top ...
By BEER
This morning, the president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, Spyros Capralos, will pass the flame to Princess Anne and London organizers, kicking off the torch's journey North to England. And you can watch it LIVE!LIVE!LIVE! on this CTV ... BEER May 172012, 0 Comments ... The 70-day relay will see the torch carried 12875 km by 8000 runners until it lights the magic cauldron at the Olympic Stadium in Stratford during the opening ceremonies on July 27th. Using us Canadians as ...
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Olympic flame heading to London: The excitement is growing - Greg ...
By Greg Dorey
May 172012. The immediate run-down to the London 2012 opening ceremony has begun. During an hour-long ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the Olympic Flame was handed to HRH The Princess Royal, who is leading a UK Delegation which includes Lord Coe, London Mayor Boris Johnson and Sport and Olympics Minister ... One of the joys of the Torch relayis that hundreds of thousands of people (including me I hope) will get to see it as it travels across the UK.
Greg Dorey
Olympic Torch Relay – Strongroom Alive
By andy
Next show: Thursday 17 May 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM. More information. ... To mark the launch of the games the Olympic Torch relay is beginning this week with the flame passing within a few miles of most of the population of the UK. It's even travelling over to Ireland ... This entry was written by andy, posted on May 172012 at 3:21 pm , filed under Events and tagged 2012 Summer Olympics, east london, Ireland, Lands End, London, Olympic, Olympic Flame, Olympic Games. Bookmark the ...
Strongroom Alive
Olympic torch relay: Suffolk urged to get ready to party - Ipswich ...
... the county's Olympic chiefs are urging people to get ready to welcome it. The flame arrives in the UK on Friday 18 May and starts its 70-day tour of the country on Saturday 19 May. ... The map of the London 2012 Olympic torch relay, which can be viewed in full at www.london2012.com/olympictorchrelay, gives street-by-street details and proposed start times for when the Olympic flame will travel through Suffolk. People living in and around county can find out when it will be travelling ...
PostcodeGazette
Visiting the Parthenon on the eve of the Handover Ceremony ...
By Artemis Papakostouli
May 172012. Yesterday HRH The Princess Royal arrived in Athens to attend the Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony, which takes place in just a few hours at the Kallimarmaro Stadium. Early evening yesterday, accompanied by British Ambassador David Landsman, Minister for Sport and the Olympics, Hugh ...The Parthenon, the last stop of the Greek leg of the Torch Relay, is a peaceful and symbolic place where the Flame spent its last night before today's big Handover ceremony.
Greek Blogyssey
Olympics-Flame for London Games formally handed over
ATHENS May 17 (Reuters) - The flame for the London Olympics, which start on July 27 after a 70-day torch relay around Britain, was formally handed over at a ...
www.reuters.com/.../oly-flame-adv71-handover-idUSL4E8GH...
Olympic flame lit in Greece ahead of torch relay across Britain before ...
The countdown to the London 2012 Olympics has begun after the Olympic Flame ... The torch will be handed over to London organisers on May 17 and flown to ...
www.independent.co.uk/.../olympic-flame-lit-in-greece-ahead-...
The Olympic Torch Relay's Surprising Origins
The ritual of the Olympic torch relay originated not in ancient Greece, but in Nazi Germany. ... RSS. Published: May 17, 2012 By: CHRISTOPHER KLEIN ...The Olympic flame is lit in Olympia, Greece, on May 10, 2012, before embarking on its ...
www.history.com/.../the-olympic-torch-relays-surprising-origi...
Olympic flame within reach of London Games chiefs
AAA 17 May. 2012 10:31 AM ET ... An unidentified torchbearer, left, passes the flame to Rena Sotiriadou during the Olympic flame relay for the 2012 London Olympics ... Torchbearer Dimitrios Chondrokoukis, a Greek high jump athlete, lights a ...
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London 2012 Olympics: Torch relay was all Adolf Hitler's flaming ...
Thursday, May 17 2012 3AM 5°C 6AM 7°C 5-Day Forecast. The Olympic torch relay begins today in Greece... but believe it or not it was all Adolf Hitler's flaming ...
www.dailymail.co.uk/.../London-2012-Olympics-Torch-relay-...
London 2012 torch relay: one flame, 8000 torchbearers, 70 security ...
There is, officials stress repeatedly, only one London 2012 Olympic flame. But when it begins its 70 day, 8000-mile relay across the UK this weekend, such are ...
www.guardian.co.uk/sport/.../london-2012-olympic-torch-rela...
Olympic Flame at Acropolis on handover eve - Sports News - SINA ...
The Olympic Flame for the 2012 London Games was welcomed with great ...temple marked the end of the seventh day of the Torch Relay that had started from ... On Thursday (May 17), the handover ceremony of the Sacred Flame that was lit ...
english.sina.com/sports/p/2012/0516/468247.html
BBC News - London 2012: Olympic flame handed over to UK in ...
The Olympic flame is officially handed over to organisers of the London 2012Games at a ... 17 May 2012 Last updated at 12:57 ET ... London 2012 torch relay ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18085399
A cauldron with the Olympic Flame is seen atop the Athens ...
The Olympic flame will be handed over to the London 2012 delegation on Thursday. ... Flame is seen atop the Athens Acropolis after a Torch relayceremony May 16, 2012. The Olympic flame will be handed over t. Thu, 17 May 18:21:00 2012 ...
uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/17052012/58/17052012172247.html
Pictures: London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay handover in Athens ...
ATHENS, GREECE - MAY 16: The Olympic flame burns in a cauldron atop the... during a handing over ceremony that will be held in Athens on Thursday May 17. ... London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay - Day Six; BA Aircraft 'The Firefly' To Bring ...
pictures.metro.co.uk/london-2012-olympic-torch-relay-hando...
BBC Olympic Flame Lighting - Torch Relay London 2012 - YouTube
BBC Olympic Flame Lighting - Torch Relay London 2012 ... through Greece using 490 torchbearers, the flame will be handed to London organizers on May17 in ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvQNMLE5nGg
Lord Coe: Olympic Torch relay 'one of the big moments' towards ...
10:08am, Thu 17 May 2012 Olympic flame handover ... champion Ben Ainslie will be the first torchbearer in the final 70-day relay to the start of the Games.
www.itv.com/.../lord-coe-olympic-torch-relay-one-of-the-big-...
Olympic Torch Relay - This is Somerset
Olympic Torch Relay: Find out where you can see Olympic Flame pass through Somerset. Trusted article source icon. Thursday, May 17, 2012. Profile image for ...
www.thisissomerset.co.uk/Olympic-Torch.../story.html
Olympic Flame at Acropolis on handover eve - China.org.cn
0 Comment(s) Print E-mail Xinhua, May 17, 2012 ... A cauldron with theOlympic Flame is seen atop the Athens Acropolis after a Torch relayceremony May 16, ...
www.china.org.cn/sports/2012-05/17/content_25406165.htm
Olympic Torch Relay
The Greek Leg of London2012 Olympic Torch Relay. ... London 17:04, 16 May2012 ... from the British Embassy were on hand to welcome the Flame en route.
ukingreece.fco.gov.uk/en/visiting-uk/070.../Olympictorch
London 2012 Olympics: Princess Royal and David Beckham to bring ...
Thursday 17 May 2012 ... ambassadors: David Beckham and Zara Phillips with the Olympic torch ... In pics: BA2012 aircraft taking flame to start of torch relay ...
www.telegraph.co.uk/.../London-2012-Olympics-Princess-Roy...
Beckham bringing Olympic flame to Britain — The Punch - Nigeria's ...
Beckham bringing Olympic flame to Britain. May 17, 2012 by Agency Reporter 2 Comments. Beckham. David Beckham will help bring the Olympic flameback to ...
www.punchng.com/.../beckham-bringing-olympic-flame-to-br...
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