Torch Bearer - tomorrow

[mjk]

Can't believe he's not running past our ground:

http://www.london2012.com/torch-relay/torchbearers/torchbearers=lakshmi-mittal-5498/index.html

[The Leveller]

Good luck to him and his PR campaign, but personally can't understand the number of non-UK nationals who have been nominated and accepted. The only underlying reason is to create press coverage and not allowing ordinary folk and forces personnel their 800m's of lime light. There are many more who have lost limbs or make a contibution to society who have not been picked up. So much for the peoples games. If this was in the USA or France I could not see many if any Brit's get the honour. Call me an old cynic.

[qpr]

Brilliant stuff. Tony & Lakshmi will have both have held the torch!

[vblockranger]

Good luck to him and his PR campaign, but personally can't understand the number of non-UK nationals who have been nominated and accepted. The only underlying reason is to create press coverage and not allowing ordinary folk and forces personnel their 800m's of lime light. There are many more who have lost limbs or make a contibution to society who have not been picked up. So much for the peoples games. If this was in the USA or France I could not see many if any Brit's get the honour. Call me an old cynic.

agree....Will.i.am ffs??

[Dale]

Who gives a damn about a person running down the street with a torch

Find it pretty pathetic people are getting excited about it

[vblockranger]

Who gives a damn about a person running down the street with a torch

Find it pretty pathetic people are getting excited about it

find the whole Olympic fervor pretty pathetic tbh

[Del]

Who gives a damn about a person running down the street with a torch

Find it pretty pathetic people are getting excited about it

Sums it up for me.....

The whole thing is a farce anyway. In the past the torch making it's way to the Olympic stadium had relevance and meaning. It was a relay....

Here it's being carried a bit, then chucked in a boot of a car and driven miles to somewhere else where some unworthy "celebrity" carries it. As said above, Will I Am in a SW town he has nothing to do with whatsoever - how is that right....? I'm sure there are plenty of people down there who've done great charity work for years or nurses / doctors / forces etc etc etc, but no let's get some tw@t from the US so it gets in the paper. Disgrace! And let's not even discuss fu$%ing Jedwood!

It should have been taken on a much shorter "Relay" from the continent to the stadium and been a big media circus when it arrived. It would have had much more impact that way and been relevant.