The trials of an investigator

What an idea - try to find out who's going to carry the Olympic flame through Cobourg, when it passes through on the 16th of December. On its way from Kingston to Peterborough. Calculations indicate that if the length of the carry is 500 meters then nineteen people are going to carry it. Considering that the draw for runners was finalised in July the two major sponsors - RBC and Coca-Cola should know just who these runners are going to be. The RBC website (I wish I had a fraction of the website budgets devoted to the Olympics, I would be on a beach in Mexico) and the Coke site publishes some names but not all. So a phone call was made to the VANOC media centre. "Leave a message", I did - no answer. E-mailed them and I get a reply, "Can you give me a phone number", I did. A very nice person told me that even the torch organisors cannot release lists of people selected until after the run!! Apparently all their effort is going into lining up the runners, as the draw was made three months ago and some people may not be able to fulfill their obligation. But celebrations, read sponsorship advertising, will take place along the route and because it is being organised on the fly it will be a surprise. But the intrepid BurdReport will keep on this story, I still have to contact the CC media dept. and attempt to show that all the runners were in fact chosen at random, according to plan, as opposed to being selected for their local celebrity status.