The Olympic Torch won’t be coming to Montgomeryshire, with Aberystwyth revealed yesterday as the closest spot for people to see the big build up to London 2012.
The Torch will undertake a 70-day domestic journey which will end at the Opening Ceremony, and, unlike previous torch relays, it will not go global but straight to Land’s End after its traditional lighting in Greece.
And with organisers promising that the torch will pass within an hour’s ride of 95 per cent of the population, local residents have unfortunately found themselves in the five per cent minority.
The route was unveiled yesterday by Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London 2012 Organising Committee, which showed the 74 ports of call during its exhaustive route which will see 8,000 torch bearers share the workloads.
It arrives in Wales on day eight in Cardiff but will travel to Swansea before heading north to Aberystwyth and on to Bangor the following day.
However, organisers stress the route details are not comprehensive and more places will be visited, leaving the door open for Newtown and Welshpool.
An Olympic insider told mywelshpool: “We have only revealed the overnight stops. The exact route will be confirmed nearer the time and will include many more hundreds of towns and villages across Wales.”