Olympic Flame
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The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games.[1] 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
The Marathon Tower at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, where a symbolic flame burned in 1928
Igniting the Olympic flame in a dress rehearsal in Greece, using the sun's energy
The 2014 Olympic torch in space during Soyuz TMA-11M
Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame in Helsinki in 1952
References
- ↑ "Britannica on Olympic Flame". Retrieved 2008-07-24.
Other websites
- IOC brochure on the history of Olympic Flame (1 MB PDF)Archived 2009-03-25 at the Wayback Machine
- Olympic torch technology