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SINGAPORE : 34 new torchbearers were chosen on Thursday for the inaugural Youth Olympic Games torch relay in Singapore.
The latest group comprises volunteers and employees of various Voluntary Welfare Organisations (VWOs). They will join the first pair of torchbearers who were selected when the torch was unveiled to the media in March.
In all, 2,400 torchbearers will make the final list.
The young people from diverse backgrounds now have a common aim - to do their organisations and country proud as torchbearers of the first Youth Olympic Games.
Worldwide Olympic Partner Coca-Cola will also distribute cheering kits and lead spectators in cheering the torchbearers on. The beverage giant also displayed torches from past Olympics at the ceremony.
The Olympic flame will arrive in Singapore on August 5, and make its first public appearance the next day at the National University of Singapore.
The islandwide torch relay starts on August 7 and continue till 13 August 13, stopping at 20 schools along the way.
Teo Ser Luck, Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Community Development, Youth and Sports, said: "Our national leaders will be involved in many ways and in different ways, but for the torch relay we hope that more placings and more slots will be given to our citizens, our Singaporeans and to our community."
50,000 specially designed car decals with the message "We Support Singapore 2010" were also released. 15,000 of them will be displayed on Singapore's largest fleet of taxis operated by ComfortDelgro.
CityCare, a not-for-profit organisation, is also behind the drive to raise awareness for the Games.
Separately, Usain Bolt - the world's fastest man - was named a Games Ambassador on Thursday.
The Jamaican is the latest to join a stellar cast of YOG ambassadors, including Olympic swim sensation Michael Phelps of America and Russia's Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva.
- CNA/al
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