{"id":501,"date":"2012-07-06T14:09:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T14:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/?p=501"},"modified":"2021-10-18T08:23:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T08:23:45","slug":"sussex-argus-investigates-olympic-torchbearers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/sussex-argus-investigates-olympic-torchbearers\/","title":{"rendered":"Argus investigates Olympic torchbearers in Sussex"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_502\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Picture-1.png\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-502\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-502\" title=\"The Argus reports on corporate torchbearers in Sussex \" src=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Picture-1.png\" alt=\"The Argus reports on corporate torchbearers in Sussex \" width=\"490\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Picture-1.png 490w, http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Picture-1-300x206.png 300w, http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Picture-1-436x300.png 436w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-502\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Argus reports on corporate torchbearers in Sussex<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Argus<\/strong> in Sussex is the latest newspaper to<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/special\/sussex_torch\/news\/9797175.One_in_three_Sussex_torchbearers_is_from_outside_the_county\/\"> ask questions of the allocation of Olympic torch relay places<\/a>: &#8220;between the charity fundraisers, world record holders and people who have dedicated their lives to helping others,&#8221; reports <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/biog\/40125\">Tim Ridgway and Charlotte Pemberton<\/a>,\u00a0&#8220;there will be Olympic officials and representatives from multinational corporations who live abroad.\u00a0This despite organisers promising it would \u201cenable local communities to shine a light on the best their area has to offer\u201d.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Argus report comes on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/corporate-torchbearers-in-bournemouth-revealed\/\">yesterday&#8217;s investigation<\/a> by the Daily Echo in Bournemouth and <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/company-bosses-were-chosen-to-carry-the-olympic-torch-admits-adidas\/\">Help Me Investigate&#8217;s work on the subject last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Among torchbearers identified by the newspaper are:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Gaelle Guerchet, of Malville, France \u2013 more than 500 miles away from Brighton \u2013 was nominated for being president of a sports group in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Another torchbearer Ximo Peris, 42, London, has been nominated for holding media workshops for school children.<\/p>\n<p>Yet The Argus can reveal he actually created a film which was used by the London 2012 team when bidding for the games.<\/p>\n<p>Julia Zeen, 30, a freelance graphic designer from Brighton, was selected to carry the torch through Lancing by sponsors Coca Cola.<\/p>\n<p>She is currently designing the multinational\u2019s range of pin badges for London 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Among the comments, &#8216;Hove Actually&#8217; says:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is rewards for the boys with a few locals thrown in to keep the masses quiet as usual, same as the tickets&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The article also lists a number of inspiring local nominees who missed out on torchbearer places.<\/p>\n<p>A full list of people carrying the torch through Sussex, with those from outside the county highlighted, is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theargus.co.uk\/news\/special\/sussex_torch\/torchbearers\/\">also on the site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Argus in Sussex is the latest newspaper to ask questions of the allocation of Olympic torch relay places: &#8220;between the charity fundraisers, world record holders and people who have dedicated their lives to helping others,&#8221; reports Tim Ridgway and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/sussex-argus-investigates-olympic-torchbearers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[246,86,279,281,143,247,248,245,65,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1167,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions\/1167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/helpmeinvestigate.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}