Actor Akshay Kumar has been nominated as the sole torchbearer to represent India at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to be held in Vancouver, Canada. On Monday afternoon, Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper did the honours at a ceremony held in Mumbai.
Organisers don't want it to happen as it is very cost consuming.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/delhi-yet-to-give-green-signal-to-olympic-relay/89366-5.html
Torch relay will now be confined to inside the boundaries of host countries.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/ioc-scraps-international-torch-relays/88850-5.html
She was selected to take part in the torch relay after an online contest.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/chinabased-indian-woman-runs-in-olympic-torch-relay/68455-5.html
The Olympic games will be held in Beijing in August.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/olympic-torch-in-lhasa-under-tight-security/67503-2.html
This came in the face of mounting pressure on Chinese-language Web sites.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/olympic-torch-relay-downscaled-after-quake-hits-china/65215-2.html
The Olympic torch is now on a 100-day tour of China ahead of the games.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/on-top-of-the-world-olympic-torch-reaches-mt-everest/64382-2.html
The torch relay has become a lightning rod for anti-China demonstrations.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/torch-run-in-seoul-disrupted-by-protests/64083-2.html
About 200 China supporters taunted pro-Tibet demonstrators in Bangkok.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/protests-dog-olympic-torch-run-in-bangkok/63623-2.html
China's security concerns in Tibet have increased many fold.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/indochina-differences-over-tibet-to-be-addressed/63514-2.html
Digvijay Singh Deo was the only Indian journalist to run with the flame.
http://ibnlive.in.com/videos/63491/cnnibn-journo-runs-with-olympic-torch--how-it-felt.html
70 sportspersons and celebrities to carry torch on 2.5-km route.
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/short-safe-torch-relay-ends-peacefully/63471-3.html
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