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The Olympic torch: Peace and controversy

March 27, 2008

RECENT CONTROVERSIES

2000: The torch-lighting ceremony for the Sydney Olympics comes under fire for switching the first handover from a Greek-Australian girl to the 11-year old daughter of an International Olympic Committee member.

Image: Wendy Craig-Duncan, a marine-biologist on Australia's Great Barrier Reef, carries the Sydney Olympic torch underwater at Agincourt Reef, Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia. Steve Nutt/ALLSPORT.

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