The olympic flame torch started in the spring of 1967 where Luke Ferguson lit a stick on fire and brang it to the olympic games so they thought "why not make it a tradition?"
Jessica then decided to root the twig...
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The Torch Lighting Ceremony was held March 24 in Olympia, Greece. Click on the '2008 Olympic Torch Lighting' link below to see a short video of the ceremony.
You can find a map of the countries that the 2008 Olympic Torch will travel through at http://www.time.com/time/2008/olympic/
Han Geng carried the 2008 Olympic torch.
There were many features in the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics in the year 2008. The centerpiece of the opening ceremony was the lighting of the grand Olympic torch.
the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games will officially start on 8 August this year
For the 2008 Games in Beijing, the Torch was at Canary Wharf on April 6, 2008.
Beijing 2008 summer Olympics started august 8 when they lit the torch on the opening ceremony. The next summer Olympics will be London 2012.
Yao Ming
The First Event to start at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was Football, which started 2 days before the Offical Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games
a Chinese man...
Swimming has been held at every Olympic games since 1896. Open water swimming was added in the 2008 Olympics.
There were total of 11,196 athletes in 2008 Beijing Olympics