Just 13 of the 50 Oxfordshire torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame through their home towns.
No wonder people are asking why?
Indeed, as one Abingdon resident rather sagely commented: “I would say having people from outside the area carrying the flame will lessen the chances of people bothering to turn out and watch.”
Quite.
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