Video: Ben Ainslie: start of Olympic torch relay is 'amazing moment' for UK During the first day of its relay the torch will be carried by more than 100 people including Olympians Duncan Goodhew and rower Michael Lapage who won silver at the 1948 Games. The flame will travel through Cornwall into Devon where it ends its first day with an evening celebration on Plymouth Hoe. Over the next 70 days the torch will be carried around all the nations of the UK, visiting 1,000 towns in the run-up to the London 2012 Games.