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The Olympic flame for next year's Winter Games in Sochi has arrived at the North Pole, the head of the organizing committee has said.

Sending the flame to the North Pole for the first time is one of a series of spectacular journeys running alongside the torch relay – others include sending an unlit torch into space, and taking the flame up Russia’s highest mountain.

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