Olympic torch carries the flame to London 2012

Actress Ino Menegaki, in the role of the High Priestess, lights the torch of the Olympic flame during a ceremony in front of Hera Temple in Olympia, Greece, on May 10. Lit by the sun’s rays in Greece, the Olympic torch takes a 70-day, 8,000 mile trip to London for the 2012 games.

A torch bearer runs past the Acropolis in Athens on May 16.

British soccer player David Beckham lights the Olympic torch from the lantern carried onboard a special British Airways flight after its arrival in Britain from Greece on May 18.

Sarah Blight holds onto her Olympic torch at Penzance in Cornwall, southwest England, on May 19.

Natalie Hawkins walks with the Olympic flame in front of Glastonbury Tor on May 22 in Glastonbury, England.

Patrick Sheehy happily carries the Olympic Flame on the leg between Gloucester and Hartpury, western England, on May 24.

Joanne Gregory travels across the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct in Wales with the Olympic Flame on May 30.

Olympic torchbearer Peter Jack carries the torch at the Giants Causeway in Bushmills, Northern Ireland, on June 4.

Irish pop stars John and Edward Grimes, known as Jedward, carry the torch during their relay leg to the General Post Office in Dublin on June 6. The Olympic flame lit up the Republic of Ireland on its only visit outside Britain en route to the 2012 London Games, in a symbolic gesture of reconciliation between the two states.

Stunt cyclist Danny MacKaskill rides with the Olympic Torch outside Kelvingrove Art Gallery in Glasgow, Scotland, on June 8.

Davie Austin, an employee of the Nevis Range, carries the Olympic Flame on a gondola at the mountain ski resort in the Highlands of Scotland on June 9.

Torch bearer Mathew Cox shouts as he holds up the Olympic torch while surrounded by the Jarl Vikings in Lerwick in the Shetland Islands of Scotland on June 10.

Joseph Forrest and children from Madras College run along West Sands with the Olympic torch on June 13 in St. Andrews, Scotland.

The Olympic torch on June 13 in St. Andrews, Scotland.

Dennis May carries the Olympic torch on a boat at the Falkirk Wheel, a rotating boat lift in Falkirk, Scotland, on June 13.

Olympic relay torch bearer David State stops midway through his leg between Marske-by-the-Sea and Loftus, England, to propose to his girlfriend Christine Langham, before continuing the relay on June 18.

Torch bearer Josephine Loughran carries the Olympic flame on the Scots Guardsman steam locomotive in York, England, on June 20.

Lance Bombardier Ben Parkinson, the most seriously wounded British soldier to survive the war in Afghanistan, carries the Olympic flame through his hometown of Doncaster, England, on June 26.

Glenn Chambers carries the Olympic flame during a heavy downpour in eastern England on June 28.

Stuntman Nick Macomber carries the Olympic flame through the air using a jet pack at the National Space Centre in Leicester, England, on July 3.

The Olympic flame is carried on a raft at the Lee Valley White Water Center on the torch relay leg between Harlow and Waltham Cross, north of London, on July 7.

Sir Roger Bannister holds the Olympic flame on the running track at Iffley Road Stadium in Oxford, England, on July 10. Bannister was the first person to run a sub four-minute-mile, on May 6, 1954, at this track in Oxford.

The Olympic flame is carried at the Olympic Rowing Venue in Eton Dorney, England, on July 10.

Torch bearer Alan Corbishley carries the Olympic flame down the path known as the Long Walk after leaving Windsor Castle on July 10.

Britain's Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip, center, London Olympic Games Chairman Sebastian Coe and Olympic torch bearer Gina Macgregor watch as torch bearer Phil Wells, left, takes the Olympic flame at Windsor Castle on July 10.

U.S. sprinter Michael Johnson holds the Olympic Flame at Stonehenge in England on July 12. Johnson, who won four Olympic gold medals and eight world championship gold medals, holds the world and Olympic records in the 400m and 4 x 400 meters relay.

Torch bearer Kathy Gore runs with the Olympic flame at Seaford Head in front of the Seven Sisters cliffs in Seaford, England, on July 17.

Torch bearer Jessica-Rose Gould passes the Olympic flame to Douglas Evans outside Rye Castle in Rye, England, on July 18.

A Royal Navy helicopter carrying the Olympic torch flies over Tower Bridge in London on July 20.

The Olympic torch is delivered by a Royal Marine as he is lowered from a Sea King helicopter at the Tower of London (unseen) on July 20. The 'Gherkin' building is seen at left.

Torch bearer Jaco van Gass, a British soldier with the First Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, is followed by the Kings Troop Royal Horse Artillery as he carries the Olympic torch past Woolwich Barracks in London on July 21. Van Gass was severely wounded in Afghanistan,

Crowds cheer as the Olympic torch passes in Hackney, London, on July 21.

Amelia Hempleman-Adams, who at 16 became the youngest person to ski to the South Pole, holds the Olympic torch on one of the capsules of the London Eye on July 22.

Former England striker Michael Owen carries the torch through Battersea dogs home with a Staffordshire Bull Terrier called Rory in London, on July 23.

U.S. tennis player Venus Williams holds the torch at the All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon on Monday, July 23.

Torchbearer Oliver Golding holds the flame on one of the lawns of Kew Gardens, southwest London on Tuesday, July 24.

Musician Labrinth carries the Olympic flame on the torch relay leg between Harrow and Brent on Wednesday, July 25, in London.

Former decathlon world record holder and Olympic gold medallist Daley Thompson carries the torch on the approach to Alexandra Palace in north London on Wednesday.

Torch bearer Jay Kamiraz, left, hands over to Scott Moorhouse as Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall watch outside the MENCAP Community Centre in Tottenham, north London on Wednesday.

Members of the public gather to watch the torch procession along Tottenham High Road in north London, past the remnants of a shop that was burnt down during last year's riots, on Wednesday.

People wait for the torch to be carried through the packed streets of Brixton, south London on Thursday.

A man pretending to be a torch bearer runs through Brixton, south London, before being escorted off the road by police on Thursday.

Paralympian Ade Adepitan carries the Olympic flame across the Millennium Bridge in front of St Paul's Cathedral on Thursday.

The Olympic torch is carried on top of an open top bus down Oxford Street in London on Thursday.

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, look on as torch bearer Florence Rowe, right, receives the flame from Kate Nesbitt in Downing Street on Thursday.

Torch bearer Akosua Scantlebury holds the Olympic flame on the royal barge Gloriana as it makes its way down the River Thames towards Richmond Bridge in London on Friday, the final day of a 70-day relay involving 8,000 torchbearers covering 8,000 miles.

Torch bearers laugh on board the Gloriana as it navigates down the River Thames on Friday.

Crowds enter the water to watch the Queen's barge carry the Olympic flame along the River Thames from Hampton Court to City Hall on Friday.

The royal barge carries the Olympic flame along the Thames to a giant set of rings moored near City Hall on Friday.

Torch bearer Amber Charles stands under giant Olympic rings next to Tower Bridge on Friday, the final day of the torch relay.