2012 OLYMPICS: Four-Time Olympian Venus Williams Takes Part In Torch Relay
Tuesday, July 24, 2012
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Andy Murray, GBR and Venus Williams, USA participate in the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay. |
Along with Britain's Andy Murray, American Venus Williams holds the Olympic Torch in the All England Tennis Club in Wimbledon Stadium where she and Andy just participated in the Wimbledon Championships. Venus may be about to become the first American tennis star to feature in four Olympics, but she intends to keep playing until the 2016 Rio Games when she will be 36.
The torch relay is on its final leg of a 70-day journey, touring the neighborhoods of host city London before being taken to the Olympic Stadium for the opening ceremony on Friday.
The torch has visited the Channel Islands, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and gone past national landmarks like Stonehenge and Mount Snowdon.
March 20, 2013 at 2:17 PM
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