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Updated on 09 April 2008

By Sarah Smith

The Olympic torch team prepares to run the gauntlet in the latest stage of the round-the-world relay in San Francisco.

After the fiascos of the London and Paris legs, the route will no longer be going over the Golden Gate Bridge or through the city's Chinatown district.

Instead it will be confined to wide streets where officials hope it will be easier to protect the flame.

But the protests have already started.

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