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The white and bronze tones of the torch mirror the main colours of the torch relay, while the five-pronged shape of the flame is based on the Korean symbol for the host city, which is also engraved around the bottom half and top of the torch. The color white also drew its cues from white porcelain, and also from snow and ice, two major symbols ...
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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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.
English: 2018 Winter Olympic & Paralympic Torch exhibited at the National Museum of Korean Contemporary History(Korean Modern Sports History Exhibition, Celebrating the Pyeongchang Olympic Winter Games/Korean Sports, A History Written in Sweat)
The London 2012 Paralympic Torch is the same design, albeit with a mirror-finish. The Olympic Torch is held in the permanent collections of the V&A, the Design Museum in London, the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland and in the private collection of the Royal College of Art, London.