Baton’s Journey Ends Today
March 14, 2006 by Sasha Manuel
Filed under Sports Rumors
The Queen’s Baton Relay is one of the great traditions of the Commonwealth Games. The relay symbolises the gathering of people from across the Commonwealth during the festival of sport and culture. It concludes at the Opening Ceremony, where it is rumored that Sprinter Lauren Hewitt has been given the honour to be one of the four final runners delivering the Queen’s Baton.
It has been an amazing 180,000 km journey across the 71 Commonwealth nations, with even some nations, like Saint Helena and Niue, hosting the Relay for the first time.
Now, the Baton’s in Melbourne on it’s 50th Day, with the runners scheduled to take it through a number of cities in the state of Victoria. It approximately started around 7:22 a.m. and ends around 8:00 p.m. at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds.
You can check where the Baton is. It gives you snapshots of where the Baton is using the Baton cam mounted in the baton, which transmits video footage of key relay moments. It also Baton tracker, the latest global positioning system technology, the online tracking device pinpoints the exact location of the baton at anytime and indicates this on an online map of the world which zooms to the actual location.
It’s one heck of a Baton, huh?
