Later they carried the torch through the city to Old Market Square, where they lit the cauldron for the evening celebration.

BBC: Olympic torch: Torvill and Dean skate with 2012 flame

Mr. Li, winner of three gold medals for China in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, caught viewers' eyes world-wide when he carried the torch and "flew" around the Beijing stadium at the opening of the 2008 games.

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Because of his prior career as a world-class track rider, Wiggins has seven Olympic medals total, the most in U.K. history, surpassing the six won by the rower Sir Steven Redgrave, who carried the Olympic torch into the opening ceremony last week.

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My favorite and most inspiring carrier is war hero Ben Parkinson, who carried the Olympic torch after learning to walk again on artificial limbs.

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Watch a video of the torch being carried through the Marble Arch Caves here (BBC webite).

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The Olympic torch will travel to Jersey on 15 July and be carried by 16 people running in relay along the island's south coast, Locog has said.

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The torch is currently scheduled to be carried through Cardiff, Swansea, Aberystwyth and Bangor.

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When the flame arrived in Nottingham on Thursday evening, Torvill and Dean carried it across the ice at the National Ice Centre and performed a specially-choreographed routine with the torch in hand.

BBC: Olympic torch: Torvill and Dean skate with 2012 flame