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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∙ 12y agoA 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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∙ 14y agoA 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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∙ 12y agothey use the sun too set it on fire in greece then transport to the country the olympics is held in
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∙ 15y agoA 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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∙ 15y agoThe olympic torch is kept alight by being fed a combustable liquid which it then ignites.
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∙ 12y agoWith a Mirror from rays of the sun. Usually done by/in a place of worship
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∙ 10y agohow is the olmpic tourch rekindled
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∙ 12y agoGREECE
in olympia, in greece that is where the olympic torch is lit
the olympic torch was lit in greece
the torch was first lit in Greece
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The Olympic torch was first lit in Olympia with a mirror focusing the beam of the sun onto the torch.
Wayne Gretsky lit the Olympic torch.
Wayne Gretzy Lit The Olympic Torch IN Vancouver
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this summer