Club to carry torch
NZPAReuter Ventura A member of the Hell’s Angels motor-cycle club will help carry the Olympic torch on foot across the United States, said club members. Members of the Ventura branch of the club said they had collected $3OOO to become a sponsor for a Ikm section of the relay. Their runner will be a club member, George Christie, who will hold the torch aloft with an arm tattooed with dragons, eagles and a
winged skull. The Los Angeles Olympic Organising Committee allows sponsors to name a runner to carry the torch for Ikm in return for a $3OOO contribution to one of three charities which raise money for United States youth sports. Members of the leatherclad and sometimes violent Hell’s Angels said Christie would wear his silver skull earring and a cap emblazoned with the badge of the club with regulation shorts and vest for his run.
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