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"The relay's a race where anything can happen," Teela said.

Tim Burke feels biathlon's cruelty in men's 15K mass start 2010

Security officials extinguished the torch at least three times due to the protests before it was carried on a bus to the relay's end point.

Archive 2008-04-01 2008

Upon the relay's conclusion on February 12, 2010 with the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the flame will have burned brightly in over 1,030 Canadian communities and reached within 900 kilometres of the North Pole.

Archive 2009-11-01 Alison 2009

Upon the relay's conclusion on February 12, 2010 with the start of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, the flame will have burned brightly in over 1,030 Canadian communities and reached within 900 kilometres of the North Pole.

Finding "Truth" a challenge, VANOC opts for fantasy Dave 2009

As the audience cheered, he/she ran through the crowd proudly carrying the curved metre-long winter white torch, officially starting the 106-day relay's 45,000-kilometre journey across Canada.

Finding "Truth" a challenge, VANOC opts for fantasy Dave 2009

As the audience cheered, he/she ran through the crowd proudly carrying the curved metre-long winter white torch, officially starting the 106-day relay's 45,000-kilometre journey across Canada.

Archive 2009-11-01 Alison 2009

And Carl Diem, the relay's inventor, ended the war as fanatical military commander at the Olympic stadium in Berlin, refusing to accept that the Third Reich was over.

Archive 2008-04-01 Stephen Retherford 2008

Police struggled to separate the two sides and had detained a protester even before the relay's planned six-mile trip along the waterfront began.

Olympic-Torch Protesters Stephanie Kang, Jim Carlton 2008

At left, a China supporter chanted "Tibet liar" at protesters before the relay's opening ceremony at McCovey Cove.

Relay on the Streets of San Francisco 2008

Australia is cautious: The co-chair of the Canberra torch relay task force, Ted Quinlan, has recognized continuing security concerns remain about the relay's Australian leg, which starts next Thursday, April 24.

Monroe Price: The Olympics in a Lower Key: The Torch Relay as Dress Rehearsal 2008