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Torch relay begins in Cornwall

Reported by Irish Times on Saturday, 19 May 2012 (on May 19, 2012)
Irish Times
Olympics:Three-time Olympic sailing champion Ben Ainslie today kicked off the London 2012 Olympic torch relay, saying it was “one of the more nervous moments of my life”. Ainslie was up in the early hours to complete the first leg of a relay that will take in a cross-border trip to Dublin from Northern Ireland at the start of June.

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