• Sochi 2014 planning spectacular torch relay stunt • 'We plan to take the torch into space – and we will'

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The 2014 Winter Olympic torch relay will include a trip into space, according to the head of the organising committee.

Dmitry Chernyshenko, president of the Sochi 2014 organising committee, confirmed the ambitious plan after carrying the London 2012 torch on a leg through the city on Thursday.

Speaking at the opening of Sochi Park in Kensington, which will promote the Games to London visitors, Chernyshenko said: "We are planning to take the torch into space – and we will."

Other highlights of the 50,000km route, which will visit all 83 Russian districts and span nine zones, will be the peak of Europe's highest mountain Mount Elbrus, and the bottom of the world's deepest lake, Lake Baikal.