He also told us that half of the 8000 Olympic torchbearers will be 12-24 years old.
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The homecoming also celebrated those who supported the 2012 Olympic and Paralympics Games including coaches, volunteers and torchbearers.
EastEnders viewers have already seen characters Fat Boy and Billy Mitchell discover they have been nominated as torchbearers.
Olympic torchbearers will have to pay if they want the ultimate souvenir of the relay - their own torch.
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Some torchbearers have told the BBC they thought the price for a torch was "an awful lot of money".
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Etienne Stott will be joined in the parade by Gamesmakers, torchbearers and those involved in pre-games training camps in the borough.
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Durham Cathedral was due to hold the service on Saturday during which torchbearers were to receive certificates from the county council.
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Locog aim to sell torchbearers the actual torch they ran with, once the gas canister has been removed and the burner system disabled.
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Other Jersey torchbearers announced on Monday include Mark Harris, who ran seven marathons in seven days, and BBC Radio Jersey sports reporter Richard Collinson.
On Monday, 2 July torchbearers will set off from the city and travel to Rugby and Dunchurch as the Olympic flame continues its journey.
However a technical hitch meant only three of the torchbearers were able to light the flame after one of the ice columns failed to appear.
Each time the Olympic flame is exchanged between two torchbearers, the gold shard motifs on the uniforms connect the torchbearers visually as the lines link together.
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It has guardians of the old order and torchbearers of modernity, a whole gallery of them: an Irish socialist, feminists of various stripes, American nouveaux riches.
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Thousands of people lined the streets of Stott's home town, with Gamesmakers, torchbearers and those involved in pre-games training camps in the borough joining him on the bus.
Nor, unlike that downtrodden group, do Muslims lack inspiring torchbearers.
Chemmy Alcott is one of the London torchbearers for the Summer Olympics in 2012 and has started working as a sports commentator and adventurer in between training for her comeback at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Mr Rogge said that like the messengers in ancient times who shared news of the Olympic truce - the laying down of arms for the Games - "the torchbearers who carry this flame to London will spread the message of sport's capacity to promote peace and to make our world a better place".
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