The organizers have overcome a logistical challenge to ensure the Olympic Flame traveled within an hour of 95% of people in the UK, the Isle of Man, Guernsey and Jersey during the 70-day Torch Relay.
The big point about Mr Livingstone however is that, having once seen himself as a possible leader of the Labour Party, he sees himself now as the keeper of its socialist flame, and the job of mayor partly as an opportunity to renew this ideological battle withinthe Labour family.