Yet another gatecrasher has managed to inject an element of ridicule into the progress of the Olympic torch around the country.
A naked man ran down the street as the procession reached Henley-on-Thames, holding his very own torch aloft as he ran:
He’s not the first to distrupt the torch’s progress around the UK by any means. In fact, it would seem that Britain has welcomed the symbol of the Olympic spirit with our traditional blend of indifference, mischief and civil disobedience.
There was the incident in Coventry, where two children tried (and almost succeeded) in simply taking the torch out of the hand of its bearer:
As my colleague Alex Hern reported over the weekend, there was also a highly questionable incident when police pushed a boy off his bike as he cycled alongside the torch party:
Another man tried to get near it as it came through Cleethorpes.
In Ezdell, a man was astonished to receive a visit from two plain clothes policemen after he handed out leaflets publicising the torch relay’s connections with Nazi-era Germany.
The flame went out here, and had to be rapidly relighted:
Well done, Britain. An excellent reception for a very silly tradition. Although, the whole Torch thing was arguably doomed from the start – it did go out during the lighting ceremony in Greece…
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