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The design of the Olympic and torch reflected three famed areas of Australian culture: the boomerang, the Sydney Opera House, and the waters of the Indian and the Pacific Oceans. The concept also reflected the elements of earth, fire, and water. Robert Jurgens G.A. & L Harrington Pty Ltd. 72 1,000 13,000 (est.) [16] 2004: Athens, Greece
Christian Petersen - Getty Images. Though the Olympic torch is inspired by the Games' ancient Greece prototype, it was first used in modern form at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. From that time ...
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The route of the 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay. The starting and ending points are marked with large red dots, while major stops along the route are marked with smaller orange dots. The blue arrows indicate the direction of travel along the route, which is marked by the black lines. Date: 6 January 2011, 23:15 (UTC) Source
Here's what to know on the history of the Olympic orch, the Olympic flame and more heading into 2024 Paris Olympics:
The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games. It was introduced at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as a way for Adolf Hitler to highlight the Nazi claim of Aryan connections of Germany to Greece. [ 1 ]
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a sleek Olympic torch for next year’s Games.
After the torch's lap around the stadium, triple gold medalists Irina Rodnina and Vladislav Tretiak carried the torch outside the stadium to light a larger version of the "celebration cauldron" used in the main torch relay at the center of the Olympic Park. A line of gas jets carried the flame from the celebration cauldron up the main cauldron ...