The BBC TorchCam page makes for strangely compelling …

Comment posted For the record: the 2012 Olympic Flame in Argyll by Mairi.

The BBC TorchCam page makes for strangely compelling viewing …! http://www.bbc.co.uk/torchrelay. You can get your fill of this spectacle, and I agree – the logistics are super-impressive.
Also, the ‘grey’ men and women running beside the torch bearer are Met Police officers, I believe. Specially trained for all sorts of security operations. Look closely and you see the radio microphones in their ears.
Cast your mind back to Beijing, and how the relay became a focus for protesters, and who could blame them. Who’s to say that those with a-campaign-needing-PR/an-axe-to-grind (take your pick) wouldn’t similarly seek to exploit the UK high profile torch procession? In the event, the fact that upwards of 7,000 genuine community champions have been selected has produced a positive event, one that only a fool would seek to interrupt.
So for either eventuality – fool or campaigner/axe-grinder – I am glad that Myles, and the other torch-bearers get the protection they deserve.

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