London organizer Seb Coe runs with Olympic torch
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The head of the London Games organizing committee has finally got his hands on the Olympic torch.
Sebastian Coe, the best-known face of the games, ran a leg of the torch route on Monday in his home city of Sheffield, northern England.
The 327-yard (300 meter) run counted as barely a jog for Coe, who won 1,500-meter gold and 800-meter silver at the 1980 Moscow Games and repeated the feat four years later at Los Angeles.
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Coe, 55, said it was an honor to carry the torch and there was "nowhere else I'd rather be."
The Olympic flame arrived in Britain from Greece on May 18. A total of 8,000 people will carry the torch during its 8,000-mile (12,875-kilometer) journey to the opening ceremony in London on July 27.