To this day I can feel myself almost swooning with shame as I stood, a very small, round-faced boy in short corduroy knickers, before the two women.

一个圆脸的小孩，穿着灯芯绒短裤，站在两位太太面前，至今我还感到，害羞充满了我的整个大脑。

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He added that although he was still "really excited" to be a torchbearer, it was a "shame" that "people are faced with such a dilemma".

BBC: London 2012: Bearers charged to own Olympic relay torch