Olympic Flame

The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. A committee plans the route that it goes through, which ends at the city where the event is being hosted. Sometimes people use the torch route to make a point. During the 2008 Olympic torch relay to Beijing, people talked about and held signs that were against China's human rights record and signs that said Tibet was not a part of China.

Olympic Flame Media

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  The Marathon Tower at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, where a symbolic flame burned in 1928

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  Igniting the Olympic flame in a dress rehearsal in Greece, using the sun's energy

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  Soihtuviesti Muuramessa 15.7.1952.

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  Olympic torch relay . Kim Brown (runner #3/3). 15th Street near Constitution Avenue. NW WDC. 21 June 1996

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  Olympic Torch in BeverleyBeverley, East Riding of Yorkshire, England.The torch enters Champney Road on its passage through Beverley.

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  The 2014 Olympic torch in space during Soyuz TMA-11M

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  2016 Summer Paralympics torch relay

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  Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame in Helsinki in 1952

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  Li Ning, a Chinese gymnast, lit the Olympic flame during the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics after "flying" around the stadium on wires.

Other websites

• IOC brochure on the history of Olympic Flame (1 MB PDF)Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
• Olympic torch technology