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AAP Sports News (Australia)
04-11-2008
Oly: No torch relay for 2010 Olympic Games

OTTAWA, April 10 AFP - An international torch relay will not be held ahead of Canada's
2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, organisers said today, insisting it was not in response
to protests of this year's Beijing Games.

Vancouver Olympic Committee chief executive John Furlong told broadcaster CTV that
organisers had never planned to hold a global relay.

Instead, the flame was expected to arrive in Canada directly from the site of the ancient
Olympics in Greece, and then be carried across the country by some 12,000 torch bearers
over 100 days prior to the start of the 2010 Games.

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