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Originally Posted by GirlySports
There's been a lot of stuff in the media about the 8000 torches for 2012. They cost £500 to make and initially the 8000 torch carriers were told they had to buy them if they wanted to keep them. Then it got bad press so the Government u-turned and gave them to the carriers for free, the bad press was mainly down to people calling into radio shows and appearing on TV saying it was awful they could not keep their torch as it was so special to them...
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For Vancouver, if you wanted a torch you had to buy it, and it wasn't necessarily the one you ran with (which is necessary, many people ran with the same torches). But they were less than 500 pounds.