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Posted: Sun., Dec. 25, 2005, 6:00am PT

Super torchbearer

Routh joins in on Olympic ritual

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Brandon Routh

Brandon Routh helps light the Olympic flame in Rome.

 

ROME -- Warner Bros.' new "Superman," Brandon Routh, laced up his running shoes on Dec. 14 to join the legion of torchbearers who were selected to carry the Olympic flame en route to Turin for the start of the 2006 Winter Olympic games (Feb. 10-26).

Routh, who makes his film debut with the actioner, said he is trying to prepare for the summer launch of "Superman Returns," and his subsequent "launch out of obscurity."

The torch relay -- which organizers have dubbed "a great popular road show" -- sparked in Rome on Dec. 8 and has been making its way over an intricate 11,000-kilometer route that crisscrosses all of Italy's provinces.

Date in print: Mon., Dec. 26, 2005, Weekly



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