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"headline": "Mapping My Tastes",
"text": "<span>Mapping my food journey.</span><br>"
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"headline": "Kickoff in Moscow",
"text": "<span>The Sochi Olympic torch relay began with an opening ceremony on Red Square. Russian President Vladimir Putin started the torch’s trek across Russia after the Olympic Flame for the Sochi Games arrived from Greece. The kickoff marked the start of a 123-day trek across the country and nearby regions to the opening ceremony.</span><br>"
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"headline": "A Trek to the North Pole",
"text": "<span>For the first time in history the Olympic torch traveled to the North Pole, making the trip aboard a Russian nuclear-powered icebreaker. Russian Polar explorer Artur Chilingarov led the mission that included 11 torchbearers from several countries and lit a specially designed torch on the ice at the North Pole. <br><span><i>Note: The point on the map is just south of the actual North Pole, as map data doesn’t allow for points above 85 degrees north.</i></span></span><br>"
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"headline": "The Curonian Spit",
"text": "<span>The natural landscape along the torch trail offered a glimpse to the wonders of Russia. The Curonian Spit is a thin, curved sand-dune spit that stretches for 98 km and separates the Curonian Lagoon from the Baltic Sea coast. The dune is shaped by the consistent winds, waves, and tides.</span><br>"
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"headline": "A Walk in Space",
"text": "<span>A Soyuz rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (pictured) carried the Olympic into space. Cosmonauts Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky performed a handoff of the Sochi torch on a spacewalk outside the International Space Station. The torch ventured to space during the 1996 Atlanta Games and the 2000 Sydney Games, but this was the first time it had been out for a spacewalk. The torch landed in Kazakhstan after its<span> orbital stay at the ISS.</span></span><br>"
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"headline": "The Deepest Dive Yet",
"text": "<span>Another record-breaking spot along the Olympic torch trail was in Lake Baikal, the world’s deepest body of freshwater. Three torchbearers in full diving gear passed the flame to each other at a depth of 13 meters. The Olympic flame stayed lit during the dive thanks to a special burner, which was similar in design to flares used as warning signals at sea.</span><br>"
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"headline": "101-year-old Torchbearer",
"text": "<span>In the city of Novosibirsk, Alexander Kapterenko became the oldest person ever to carry an Olympic torch. The 101-year-old Siberian carried the torch about 200 meters and had been a world-class table tennis player and had participated in several international tournaments. RIA Novosti news agency reported that Kaptarenko had practiced in recent weeks by holding a frozen fish as a stand-in for the torch.</span><br>"
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"headline": "The Halfway Mark",
"text": "<span>The Olympic flame passed through the Siberian city of Tobolsk, marking the halfway point of the torch's 123-day journey. Tobolsk was founded in 1587 and was the second city built in Siberia after the oil center Tyumen. It is also the place where the last Russian emperor, Tsar Nicholas II, went into exile in August 1917, following his abdication the previous February.</span><br>"
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"headline": "100th Russian City",
"text": "<span>Kungur, a historic town in the Ural Mountains, was the 100th Russian City visited by the Sochi 2014 Olympic flame. To mark the occasion, the olympic torch was transported by a specially designed hot air balloon, following the traditions of the city’s annual ballooning festival, “Heavenly Exhibition.”</span><br>"
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"headline": "Conquering Heights",
"text": "<span>The Olympic flame was carried to the summit Mount Elbrus, of the highest point in Europe, by a team of experienced mountaineers. At more than 5000 meters, Mount Elbrus sits on the border of Asia and Europe. &nbsp;</span>"
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"headline": "Opening ceremony at Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics",
"text": "<span>The Olympic flame’s last stop was Fischt Olympic Stadium in Sochi. Irina Rodnina, Russian figure skating legend, and Vladislav Tretyak, former goaltender for Russia’s ice hockey team, lit the Olympic cauldron, marking the start of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics. </span><br>"
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