As Bonfire night celebrations begin to finish for another year, another event was announced in detail involving something that just needs a little flame to cause a big fuss!
The Olympic torch relay route was announced with the headline being that 95% of the population will be within 10 miles of the Olympic flame at some point during the relay. This has always been a major operation by organisers to bring the Olympics to the whole country rather than just London and a few other cities that are hosting Football or Sailing With venues set to be sold out in the majority of sports is the torch more of a plan to make sure Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland citizens stump up the cash to buy the readily available group stage football tickets.
The magic of the 'flame' also seems to be disappearing, as a child you believed that the torch never went out and was always lit in Greece ending with a massive ceremony at the Olympic Stadium. However with the constant world we live in and with protests on the biggest occasions a regular occurrence, even Lord Coe has admitted if the flame does go out it will just be relit the traditional way and then be on its way again. It doesn't exactly inspire a young child if you see one of the symbols of the games being relit with a box of matches from Morrisons (protection of up to 35mph gusts doesn't seem a large guarantee that it will survive). This is just one of the early obstacles that may occur during the Olympic period next summer, but the main aim of getting an enthusiastic nation behind its athletes seems to be in full swing which could lead to an extremely successful games for team GB. Who knows maybe it will be the good old British weather that will dampen the Olympic spirit, does it rain in Britain during the summer?
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