Lakshmi Mittal, son among 8,000 Olympic torchbearers

Mar 20, 2012 |

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Indian-born billionaire Lakshmi Mittal, chairman and chief executive of ArcelorMittal, and his son Aditya are among 8,000 torchbearers who will carry the Olympic flame in its 8,000-mile journey around the UK before it arrives at the Olympic stadium on July 27 at the opening ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Sixty-one-year-old Londonbased industrialist, who lives in a mansion in Kensington Palace Gardens, will carry the flame through his residential borough of Kensington & Chelsea just a day before the Olympic Games start.

His 36-year-old son Aditya will also carry the Olympic flame on the same day. Mr Mittal is the richest person in the UK and has topped the Sunday Times Rich List for seven years running. He has a strong link to the London Olympics as he funded British sculptor Anish Kapoor’s looping and twisting 118-metre tower, made of steel, at the Olympic Park in east London.

Meanwhile, the threat of a London Underground strike looms over the 2012 Games as the transport unions have rejected offer of £850 bonus for workers during the Olympics. The unions — Unite and the Transport Salaried Staffs’ Association — had last week refused the offer of £850 bonus over the London Underground’s 'demand for total flexibility'.

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