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Organizers are forced to take allternative route after protesters grind procession to a halt

Everything was going so smoothly. Then the torch hit downtown.As the Olympic tourch relay marched down Yonge St.on Thursday night, hundreds of protesters flooded the procession to a halt. Dozens of police officers carrying batons barricaded about 300 demonstratora in the intersection , where they stood chanting "No Olympics on Stolen Native Land"while holding a papier-mache torch .

Up Yonge, fans of torch carrier Akshay Kumar ,Bollwood's equivalent of BradPitt, pushed their way onyo the street ,further clogging the street . Delayed by an hour ,the relay organizers turned to Plan B . They put the torch in its protective safety lantern and the convoy drove on ,diverting west along Wellesley St. to its scheduled stop at the Hospital for Sick Children .

Thursday's incident marks the second time the torch has been held up by protests in its 106-day , 45000-kilometer journey to the Games

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