The relay will last 130 days and cover a total distance of 137,000 kilometres. And this is the longest distance covered of olympic torch.The torch will pass through the hands of 21,880 torch bearers of various ethnicities and nationalities.The relay route will also pass through every continent on earth except Antarctica.
It stands for a scroll.
Not at all
For the 2008 Games in Beijing, the Torch was at Canary Wharf on April 6, 2008.
Yes, lee shinkin did carry the torch and so did theo walcott
In 2008 it was in Beijing, China on 08-08-08.
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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 olympic flame is lit in Olympia month before the games, the exact route the torch takes is up to the individual Olympic organizing committees, however after the protests in Europe with the Beijing torch, the IOC has now said that after the greek leg, the enitre torch relay must take place in the host country.
we have the olympic torch to reprecent the countrey
The final Olympic torch bearer will use the torch to light the cauldron at the Olympic venue.
in olympia, in greece that is where the olympic torch is lit
The Olympic torch relay was invented in 1936.