COLLEGE 800m runner Guy Learmonth says he feels ‘honoured’ to be part of a ground-breaking programme  to promote a positive legacy from this summer’s London Olympic Games.

The 19-year-old, who had a very mixed season on the track as his early record-breaking form was overtaken by a stress fracture to his tibia and then a serious car crash, has helped his morale by being an ambassador for Flames: Lighting the Way, a programme run jointly by the College and the British Heart Foundation.

He said: “It started off in the Loughborough area and now it’s pretty much going around the whole country. We carry around the 1948 Olympic torch to schools trying to inspire the next generation – that’s what it’s all about as well as keeping the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic legacy. It’s honouring the past and looking forward to the future. There’s a big, big future for Britain in sport. I’m honoured to be a part of it and seeing the likes of Liam Tancock there as well, I really am just wanting to be a part of it.”

Other sporting aces, including Taekwondo world champion and London 2012 potential gold medallist Sarah Stevenson MBE and Team GB hockey starlet Nicola White, are among the best-known Flames ambassadors, alongside evergreen 91-year-old Olympian Tommy Godwin.