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While the duo set the trail ablaze, they have passed the baton to a trio of coaches — Inouye-Perez, Walker and Fernandez, who have spent a combined 72 years in Westwood.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026

As they entered, the team's baton bearer handed the baton to one of three gardeners on stage.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

This year there was no baton relay across the Commonwealth but each of the 74 nations and territories was given a wooden baton to decorate.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

The monarch then removed a message he had placed in the baton in March last year - 500 days before the start of the Games.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

All day long I pictured Friday’s race: Huber leads off, he hands the baton to Noles halfway through the first turn, Noles tears down the backstretch, hands to Caruso.

From "Crash" by Jerry Spinelli

The son of a Nasa Indigenous guerrilla and an Afro‑Colombian police officer, his protection is a phalanx of some 30 Indigenous Guards, some barely out of their teens and armed with little more than batons.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Little is made of Goering’s outrageous personal style: the power-blue Reichsmarschall’s uniform, the fur-lined capes, the diamond encrusted badges and batons, the face makeup.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

Sixty years ago, marchers in Selma faced tear gas and batons so that we might inherit a fuller democracy.

From Slate ● Jul. 16, 2025

These are paraded the day before the official handover during a procession when married women march with wooden batons, called "siinqee".

From BBC ● Mar. 11, 2025

They stood with their batons hanging at their sides, their helmets gleaming in the lights of the parking lot.

From "Anger Is a Gift" by Mark Oshiro