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
The Olympic torch relay was invented in 1936.
The ancient Greeks were not the first people to do the torch relay. The torch relays origin dates back to the 1930's and was started by Germany (Nazi Germany, at the time)
because they had that in the B.C.s
every torch relay is different! this year (vancouver 2010 torch relay) the flame traveld 45, 000 km in over 106 days! making it way around the highest and the lowest point of canada!
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!!
a torch relay is when you are at the Olympics and the put a torch on fire its so cool!!
The Olympic torch relay was invented in 1936.
They have a torch relay to show they care about the world.
The Olympic Torch Relay starts in the Greek city of Olympia.
I dont know anything about "relay", but think about it, you can burn stuff with a torch.
The torch relay was invented in 1936, it was Carl Diem's idea, but if i am correct i believed it was create by Krupp.
in Greece
There were no runners carrying the torch ... all carriers of the torch were on skis.
usually people that enter the torch relay are mostly people from the country that hosts the olympic games that year.
cheesepuffs
the holes in the relay represent 8thousnd pepole have carrid the flame and swaped for the relay