Olympic torchbearer Kylan Nieh of Fremont has long past from being on most sensible of the sector to residing a nightmare after a theft in Rome.

He and his circle of relatives misplaced all in their footage and video of Nieh's colourful torch relay run ultimate week while his father's bag was stolen at a educate station.

"We are so devastated," Nieh, 19, wrote in an e-mail to Bay Space Information Group.

The theft passed off simply days after the 2010 Undertaking San Jose Top graduate did again flips and kicked his heels in a memorable torch relay second in Andover, England.

The circle of relatives deliberate to excursion Europe at the commute overseas.

"My father was approached by a few males at a educate station in Rome," Nieh wrote Sunday night time (early Monday in Italy). "THE LADS ended up stealing my father's bag and after seeking to chase them, we misplaced everything."

Everything incorporated an iPad and passport.

"We are going to the U.S... Consulate day after today in Florence to deal with the passport," Nieh wrote. "HOWEVER again, we're so so unhappy we misplaced all reminiscences of the photographs and movies of the torch relay -- which I DID NOT even get to look yet.

"It's a nightmare proper now."

The nightmare adopted Nieh's joyful run prior to a flag-waving crowd in England. Nieh, who now attends UC Berkeley, known as that day the most productive of his life, noting that "phrases can not describe the sentiments I had in this experience."

He is now scrambling to touch media shops in England that will have footage and

video of his Olympic moment.

"It's my remaining straw of hope," he added.