The street-by-street
route that the Olympic torch will take has been announced as well as
confirmation of the torchbearers. Unique Client Solutions looks into some of
those who have been selected.
Unique Client Solutions
understands that the torch will arrive in the UK on the 18th of May
and will start on its long journey from Lands End the next morning. The 8,000
mile journey will be undertaken by 8,000 torchbearers who have been nominated
through various progammes run by Locog, Coca-Cola, Lloyds TSB and Samsung, the
latter three are major sponsors of the London 2012 Games.
A spokesperson for the
customer acquisitions company said, “All of the torchbearers should be
incredibly proud to have been nominated and selected for this honour. At Unique Client Solutions we think that it is a great way to recognise the personal
achievements or community spirit which got them nominated in the first place.
It is a fantastic reward for their fantastic effort. It is in the perfect
spirit of the Olympic Games.”
The torch will visit
every region in the UK and stop off at landmarks such as Stonehenge and the
Giant’s Causeway.
There will be 7,300
nominated torchbearers and the remaining 700 will be athletes and celebrities.
Each of them will carry the torch for approximately 300 meters meaning that on
average there will be 110 people carrying the flame each day. Sheffield-based
Unique Client Solutions have learnt that the Olympic Chief, Sebastian Coe, will
be carrying the torch through the Steel City as it was his home town. He said
of the honour, “For me Sheffield was where all my athletics really happened so
that would be the obvious place to be involved.”
Another of the torchbearers
will be Steven Tomlinson the 14 year-old son of Jane Tomlinson who raised
£1.85m for charity before succumbing to breast cancer in 2007. He will carry
the torch through Leeds on behalf of his mother in recognition of all her hard work. The oldest torchbearer will be Diana
Gould who will be 100 just before the start of the Olympics. Unique Client Solutions were delighted to hear that she still runs exercise classes in her
retirement flats.
The representative for
Unique Client Solutions finished, “Carrying the Olympic flame is such an
integral part of the Olympics, we’re so excited to see it come through
Sheffield and we’ll definitely all be leaving the office on the day to watch it
go by.”
Unique Client Solutions would like to congratulate all of the individuals both nominated and
selected to be Olympic torchbearers for the London 2012 games.
