1.   During the relay, the mother flame follows directly behind the torch bearer, accompanied by staff members who remain ready to relight the torch should it go out.

2.   If your goal is to someday be an Olympic torch bearer, do you start off by running with a match in your hand and work your way up?

3.   In June, the Clintons met the torch bearer crossing the White House lawn.

4.   Last month, she served as an Olympic torch bearer in her hometown of Council Bluffs, Iowa.

5.   Near the end of the night, there was a procession of surprise torch bearers that formed a dream conga line of American Olympians before the caldron was lighted.

6.   Nor did it occur to him that it was improper for his daughter, Sophie, to displace another girl as the first Australian torch bearer.

7.   Opening Ceremonies singer Olivia Newton John and Olympic torch bearer Greg Norman playing second fiddle to an echidna, a platypus and a kookaburra?

8.   Prime Minister Vo Van Kiet, who will not seek re-election, is seen as a torch bearer of economic reform in Vietnam.

9.   Q. Is it too late to apply to become a torch bearer?

10.   Shea and his father were part of the final torch bearers inside Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium before the Olympic cauldron was lit.