Coping with the pressure of flying the Olympic flame to the UK

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Top pilot’s ‘most precious cargo’

The Olympic flame is due to arrive in the UK on Friday, ready for the start of the London 2012 torch relay.

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Olympic flame to arrive for relay

The Olympic flame is to be officially handed over to organisers of the London Games at a ceremony in Athens.

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Olympic flame to be handed over

The Olympic flame is to be passed to London on Thursday evening, after a week-long relay around Greece.

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VIDEO: Acropolis ceremony for Olympic torch

Actor Will Smith tried his hand at Olympic sports when he met members from Team GB at the Ethos Centre at Imperial College in London.

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VIDEO: Will Smith’s Team GB Olympic workout

People who missed out on London 2012 Olympic tickets are being offered another chance to go to the Games in a further online sale.

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New sale of 2012 Olympic tickets

Britain’s Mhairi Spence wins gold and Samantha Murray bronze for Great Britain at the Modern Pentathlon World Championships to book their Olympic places.

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Spence wins title to seal GB spot

Royals attend Olympic gala night

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In pictures: Royals attend Olympic gala night

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attend a gala performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall, to celebrate Great Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes.

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VIDEO: Duke and Duchess attend Team GB gala

The Orbit – the spiralling red steel tower that looms over London’s Olympic Stadium – is being unveiled on Friday.

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Olympic Orbit tower is unveiled

Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond’s spiralling sculpture in the heart of the Olympic Park is being unveiled on Friday.

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VIDEO: Time-lapse of Kapoor’s Olympic Orbit

The flame for the London 2012 torch relay and Olympic Games has been lit during a ceremony in Olympia, Greece.

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2012 Games flame lit in Greece

Watch highlights from a dramatic game as Great Britain’s men miss out on a place in the final of the Olympic hockey test event after a 3-3 draw with Australia on the London 2012 pitch. (UK users only)

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VIDEO: Highlights – GB men 3-3 Australia

HMS Ocean, on deployment in the Thames as part of the Olympic security preparations, had a close encounter with the Thames Barrier as it made its way up the river.

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VIDEO: HMS Ocean squeezes up Thames

HMS Ocean, on deployment in the Thames as part of the Olympic security preparations, had a close encounter with the Thames Barrier as it made its way up the river.

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VIDEO: HMS Ocean squeezes up Thames