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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rafael Behr

Who will light London's Olympic flame?

Life goes on. The newspaper is made. There were some difficult choices to make for this edition. We described, for example, some of the discussions we had over a leader comment on the blog. The text we came up with is here.

As we also reported on the blog, the judgement over how to press ahead with our reporting of the Olympics in the light of Thursday's horrific events, was not easy.

In the end we felt that a full celebration of the Games and the City were still very much in order.

But one thing we couldn't decide ... who should have the epic honour of lighting London's Olympic flame in 2012? Some names were thrown up. David Beckham? Kelly Holmes? Daley Thompson? Eddie the Eagle?

Help us out here ...

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