The Olympic torch relay completed its 70-day tour across Great Britain hours before the opening ceremony of the London 2012 Games on 27 July 2012, the final leg having been finished by royal barge on London's River Thames in front of tens of thousands of enthusiastic spectators. It finished its 8,000 mile journey at Tower Bridge.
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