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The flame for the London 2012 Olympic Games was lit on Thursday in a ritual ceremony held at Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games more than 2,000 years ago. 
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Britain's most successful Olympic sailor, Ben Ainslie, will start off the torch relay when the Olympic flame arrives in Britain next week ahead of the London Games.
The London 2012 Olympics torch was lit by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Thursday.
Women's boxing is preparing to punch its way into the history books when the world championships, doubling as the sport's first ever Olympic qualifying event, take to the ring in China over the weekend.
The countdown to this summer's London Olympics kicked off with the kindling of the Games torch by the sun's rays in ancient Olympia on Thursday.
The world's greatest athletes descend on London in July for the 2012 Olympics.
Athletes are training hard for the upcoming London Olympic Games.
Cuba's Olympic hurdling champion Dayron Robles will race in the United States for the first time next month.
LeBron James had 29 points, eight rebounds and seven assists, and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade both scored 19 points as Miami beat New York 106-94 on Wednesday to win the Eastern Conference first-round series in five games.
Priestesses in pleated robes swayed under a scorching sun at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Wednesday in the final rehearsal to light the flame that will burn at the London Games.
Yao Jinnan, the backbone of Chinese women's gymnastics team, has dropped out of the National Championships here due to a slight knee injury but remains high hopes of making into the Olympic line-up.
Greece's economic crisis will not upstage the lighting of the Olympic flame at the birthplace of the Games, London 2012 chairman Sebastian Coe told Reuters on Wednesday.
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