Trafalgar Square crowd celebrate winning the Olympic bid in 2005
The Olympic torch will be taken around the Roger Bannister track at Iffley Road stadium on 10 July 2012, it has been announced this morning. It has also been confirmed that three members of the University have been selected as official torchbearers and will carry the torch as it travels through Oxford on 9 and 10 July. The torch begins the day on 10 July at the Iffley Road track, where it will be taken around the track then led out of the path by the Oxford University Rugby Club pitch. The University will also hold a sports day for local schoolchildren at Iffley Road on 9 July. The three torchbearers are Professor Richard Cooper and DPhil students Doireann Lalor and Nicola Byrom, who were chosen as part of Samsung's nomination programme. Professor Cooper has been heavily involved in sport at Oxford for 45 years, initially as a student playing hockey and cricket and later as a key supporter of organised sport as a senior member of sports teams. He has recently retired as Chair of the University Sports Committee after 15 years during which time the sports service has trebled its size in terms of student sports provision, and still plays cricket for the University emeriti team.
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