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{{Infobox Olympic torch relay | 2094 | Summer | | logo = Example.svg | caption = Example image | host city = Footown | countries visited = Fooia, Fooland ...
The white and gold 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 of ...
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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 ...
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 ...