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Free the flame, Olympic fans say

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Olympic fans take pictures of the cauldron Tuesday morning


VANCOUVER – The location of the Olympic cauldron on the Vancouver waterfront is ideal – if you're allowed into the main media centre.

If you're an Olympic tourist, not so much. Crowds circled a construction site next to the cauldron Tuesday, as they have every day of the 2010 Games, trying to get a souvenir picture through the chain-link fence that kept them from the broad empty plaza.

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