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How does the olympic torch get lit?

Updated: 9/27/2023
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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.

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A torch is held in the middle of a curved mirror that is faced towards the sun. The heat generated from the sun in the mirror ignites fuel within the torch and the flame is lit.

Click on the "Lighting of the Olympic Flame" link below to see a video of the lighting of the Flame for the 2008 Games in Beijing.

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A ceremony is performed several months before the games start. The torch is ignited by using a parabolic mirror to concentrate the rays of the sun.

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they use the sun too set it on fire in greece then transport to the country the olympics is held in

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A ceremony is performed several months before the games start. The torch is ignited by using a parabolic mirror to concentrate the rays of the sun.

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The olympic torch is kept alight by being fed a combustable liquid which it then ignites.

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11y ago

With a Mirror from rays of the sun. Usually done by/in a place of worship

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how is the olmpic tourch rekindled

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GREECE

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