Torch Relay Concludes With No Fuss In Canberra, Australia
News April 24th, 2008

No disruption, no shouting and no snatching. The Olympic torch relay has concluded peacefully in Australia with tens of thousands of spectators cheering for the torch runners along the relay route.
Ian Thorpe, five-time gold medalist, ran as the last torch bearer and lit the cauldron at 11:30 with loud cheers and applauses from the spectators at the Stage 88 in the Commonwealth Park in the downtown of the capital city.
Via Beijing 2008
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is the first [genuinely] trouble-free run?
but reading other reports it sounds as if there was no fuss because there was such a tight clampdown it wasn’t an option.
[why does this thing keep asking me for the same anti-spam word?]