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This site will give you some idea: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Olympic_Torch_Relay
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Is there a summer and a winter olympic torch?
No, there is not a summer and a winter olympic torch. There is only one torch. At the first olympic games ever held, the torch was lit, and it will never go out, so it just gets passed on to all of the olympic games that are held.
Who carried the olympic torch in 1996?
My grandfather John S. (Jack) McCarthy was one of the ones that carried the olympic torch in 1996 and he had type 1 diabetes.
Who was the last bearer of the Olympic torch at the Atlanta Olympic games and had previously one Olympic gold?
muhummad ali (cassius clay)
Which famous singer carried olympic torch?
Wendy McClelland and Leanne Scott
How much did it cost to burn the Olympic torch?
A regular person cannot purchase an Olympic torch. You can buy an Olympic torch replica on Amazon or Ebay. If you participate in the Olympics, you will be offered a chance to purchase an Olympic torch,
How many people carries the olympic torch?
8000
Does everybody who caries the torch get one of their own?
Yes everybody who caries the Olympic torch gets one. It ways about 3 pounds and their were about 12 hundred people who carried the torch. Adam Summers went to Lombardy Public School and brought the torch he carried
Why are the escorts in the Olympic parade carrying funnels?
They are the "petals" that formed the one large torch in the middle of the arena.
How is the Olympic flame?
The Olympic flame is ignited after having passed the torch from one runner to the next over the course of the months prior to the Olympics. The final bearer touches the torch to the cauldron to start the ceremony. The FIRST torch is lit using the rays of the sun concentrated by a parabolic mirror- at the site of the ancient Olympics in Greece.
Who lit the torch in la Olympics?
Rafer Johnson, a decathlon olympic champion (1960) lit the olympic torch. Sixteen years earlier he was one of the men who assisted in taking down Sirhan Sirhan, RFK's assassin, seconds after the assassination took place.
What is the significance of the torch relay?
The significance of having an Olympic torch relay is because of many reasons from the joy of seeing it pass down your local high street, to showing that the world is united with this flame. Firstly, as this flame has been kept going since the first olympic games in Olympia, it proves that our world is caring and all the continents are united as they are on the Olympic logo with the rings joined together. Secondly, people are constantly at this minute passing on the Olympic flame, which is in Carshalton (near where I live I saw the Olympic torch today :o) which represents one of the sports in the games
Why is the person who lits the Olympic torch to start the winter olympic games?
The Torch Relay symbolizes the passing of Olympic traditions from one generation to the next!This flame represented the "endeavor for protection and struggle for victory." It was first introduced into our Modern Olympics at the 1928 Amsterdam Games. Since then, the flame has come to symbolize "the light of spirit, knowledge, and life."
