Olympic torchbearers will have to pay if they want the ultimate souvenir of the relay - their own torch.
BBC: London 2012: Bearers charged to own Olympic relay torch
The relay-style reading, with each person taking the stand for exactly two minutes, also includes video link-ups with participants in Europe and Latin America.
In Olympic Stadium, meanwhile, America's top female sprinters outpaced their Jamaican competitors to earn gold in the prestigious 4 x 100-meter relay -- though their long dominant countrymen fell just short in the 4 X 400-meter men's race.
Following an injury-plagued summer, the widely hyped track-and-field star not only botched the baton exchange during the men's 4x100 relay semi-final, but he failed to qualify for the 100-meter final, much less medal, throwing his marketability into question.
Their helmets also relay surround-sound audio alerts, giving directional warnings of incoming missiles.
"That still doesn't give me any motivation, " said Bolt, who is expected to be rested for the 4x100m relay first-round heats on Friday.
Corporate customers have installed some 40, 000 BlackBerry servers, which synchronize and relay e-mail and let data-processingdepartments remotely zap all the data from lost or stolen BlackBerrys.
To save energy, Jonathan didn't run in the 4x400m relay semi-final but was the last runner in the final on Sunday, in which the Belgian team won bronze.
On Friday in the 4 by 100-meter relay, the American women busted a two-games streak of botching the baton handoff by setting a world record.
Going forward, the LLCD will play a vital part in NASA's 2017 Laser Communications Relay Demonstration, a key test of laser-based relay comms in future missions.
Their torch relay allowed difference-makers in their communities to earn the privilege of carrying the torch.
Anderson stuck with one outfit, NetLink, a frame-relay access company, for 13 years.
After leading off the relay, 100-meter superstar Magnussen sat down.
An avowed distance runner, Goluskin is also known for his speed on the track, having participated in a world-record-setting 4x800 meter relay team for men aged 70-79 at the 168th street Armory in March.
One way this can be successfully accomplished is by "multiplexing" the electrodes normally used to relay touch input -- that is, using the same electrodes to handle the signals for both touch control and the pixels of the LCD, according to a 2010 IHS report on touch-screen displays.
In the 4X100-meter freestyle relay, teammate Jason Lezak trailed by almost six-tenths of a second when he entered the pool for his anchor leg.
To say the U.S. was the favorite in the women's 4 by 400-meter relay is an understatement.
The 21-year-old athlete is due to compete in the 4x100-metres relay on Friday.
Back then many companies ran a free, open-source e-mail relay technology but ended up spending more than they thought they would making the stuff work.
The seven-month relay will cover 190, 000 km before it reaches the home country in the weeks before the 20th games, which begin on 23 July 2014.
The four-time Paralympic Games gold medalist won a silver medal as part of South Africa's 4x400-meter relay at the world championships in Daegu, South Korea, last year.
It was taken on a 1, 800 mile-long relay around Greece before being handed over to the Princess Royal on Thursday evening at the Panathenaic stadium, Athens.
He was part of a silver medal-winning relay team at the 1994 Lillehammer Games and, after his skating career ended, served a term as president of U.S. Speedskating.
In the men's 4-by-400-meter relay, the Bahamas' Ramon Miller passed American Angelo Taylor in the race's final 100 meters, taking the gold medal while the U.S. settled for silver.
In 2002, Montgomery was the world's fastest man, dating Marion Jones and was an Olympic gold medalist with the United States 4x100-meter relay team at the 2000 Sydney Games.
This year more than 500 people from 41 countries are taking part in the 40, 000-mile relay race, which started in August 2011 and is set to finish later this month.
Business execution is like an intricate, multi-faceted relay race.
And if there was a concern from the Secret Service, they would always relay it back to -- it was a back and forth between the Social Office and the Secret Service.
The time it took Bob Hayes, who died this fall at the too-young age of 59, to cover 100 meters during his anchor leg of the 400-meter relay in the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.
"When you have the pleasure of working with the No. 1 athlete in the world, that's a no-brainer, " said Glance, who won gold as part of the U.S. 4x100-meter relay team at the Montreal Games in 1976.
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