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Olympic flame continues journey

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MINEHEAD, UNITED KINGDOM - MAY 21: Olympic torchbearer Sarah Milner Simonds runs with the olympic flame during the torch relay on May 21, 2012 near Minehead, England. Simonds sold her Olympic torch on the online auction site eBay for ?153,100 GBP. She also listed her torchbearer's uniform and is set to use the money raised by the auction to help fund community gardening project The People's Plot. The Olympic Flame arrived in the UK last Friday and is on the first leg of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)