Three time Olympic medalist Barbara Kendall carried the torch for New Zealand.
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it was it in1928
They time the running of the torch from Greece to the Olympic venues so that the torch is carried into the main stadium at the end of the opening ceremonies and the big flame in the stadium is lit by the torch.
You can find a map of the countries that the 2008 Olympic Torch will travel through at http://www.time.com/time/2008/olympic/
they carry on in the night.
6:30 pm
The winner was Alfred Hajos of Hungary in a time of 1:22.2.
Since the first Olympic games celebrated in the modern time, the Olympic Torch has become symbol of the peace between the continents. This question is more fully answered by looking in the link I will place below.
I assume you mean the olympic flame. The flame burns constantly at Olympia in Greece, when its time for the games a torch is lit, sent on a relay and the individual flame in the host nation is lit, and then extinguished
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)
I assume you mean the olympic flame. The flame burns constantly at Olympia in Greece, when its time for the games a torch is lit, sent on a relay and the individual flame in the host nation is lit, and then extinguished