It depends on the games, each Olympic games has a different design for the torch. this year it is a triangle. it has 8000 holes 2 represent the ppeople who r carrying it
It is extinguished at the closing ceremony of each Olympic Games. The torch is initially lit, by the Sun's rays that are concentrated by a mirror, at a ceremony in Olympia, Greece several months in advance of an Olympics. The relay then takes the torch to the site of the Olympics where the cauldron is lit with it.
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Al Oerter competed in 4 Olympic Games (1956, 1960, 1964, 1968) and won gold in discus throw at each. He also carried the flag into the stadium, with several other famous U.S. Olympians, at the 1984 Games in Los Angeles and brought the Olympic Torch into the stadium at the Opening Ceremonies of the 1996 Games in Atlanta.
The flame is not carried from mt Olympus but from the ancient sanctuary of Olympia in southeastern Greece, in the regional district of Elia (Ηλιεία in Greek), in Peloponnese. The first Olympic games ever (named after the region) took place there in 776 BC. The flame used to burn non stop during the Games back at the time, and it symbolised the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus. The Olympic torch relay from Greece to various cities around the world, has no ancient precedent whatsoever and it was introduced for the first time in the Olympic games of Berlin in 1936 (the Nazi Olympics) by Carl Diem, who imagined a symbolic pageant that would give the Nazi Germany a bit of the old glory of ancient Greece, by the transit of a lit flame from Greece to Berlin by a relay of torch-bearing runners. Although the transfer of the Greek flame around the world gives a mystifying glory of the past to the modern Olympic Games, it is not understood why this Nazi extravaganza is still happening today.
they have an olympic torch to represent each country in a different way each flicker of the flame is all the countries
The Olympic Torch
Olympia, Greece, home of the original Olympic games.
Greece. The source of the "mother" flame and the Olympics.
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Each hole represents the 8000 torch carriers.
the torch is lit 3-4 months before the date of the olympics. the relay then takes place and is taken to the new venue of the olympics.
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It depends on the games, each Olympic games has a different design for the torch. this year it is a triangle. it has 8000 holes 2 represent the ppeople who r carrying it
Lots of different people carry it from some some were and take it to the games
The Olympic torch is typically carried by a series of torchbearers during a relay leading up to the opening ceremony. The identity of the person who carries the torch a day before the opening ceremony can vary with each Olympic Games and is usually announced close to the event. To provide an accurate answer, I would need to know which specific Olympic Games you are referring to (e.g., Tokyo 2020, Paris 2024, etc.). Please provide the year or location, and I can give you the exact information.
Not exactly. The torch is lit before each celebration by the sun on Mount Olympus in Greece. This started in 1928, the relay started in 1936.