They run up the stairs and light it using the torch.
it was used for light
1936 in Berlin by Nazi Germany!
The first modern day Olympic torch was used in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. The torch relay from Greece to the site of the Olympics was introduced in the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Carl Diem.
1996 torch bearers atlanta olympics
the flame represents purity and the endeavor of perfection, while the torch represents the continuation from the ancient olympic games to the modern olympics
The olympic torch represents the theft of fire from Zeus by Prometheus the giant. It also might represent a relay run in the late Ancient Olympics in which a team of runners passed a torch between them and the last runner lit a huge torch. It is a tradition to light the flame at the beginning of all Modern Olympics.
a torch relay is when you are at the Olympics and the put a torch on fire its so cool!!
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a torch relay is when you are at the Olympics and the put a torch on fire its so cool!!
It is a source of light. BTW "torch" is the word used in Britain (and a few other countries) for what Americans call a "flashlight".