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SARAJEVO SYMBOLISM

The secretary general of the United Nations took a symbolic run through the former Olympic city of Sarajevo before he comes to London to carry the Olympic torch toward the 2012 Games.

Ban Ki-moon carried a torch on Thursday morning in the Olympic Stadium in Sarajevo, home to the 1984 Winter Olympics - and years of war and hard times afterward. Ban ran alongside Sarajevo's marathon runner Islam Djugum, who even during Bosnia's 1992-95 war trained daily - but only after dark, to avoid snipers.