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The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Other famous final torch bearers include 1960 decathlon gold medallist Rafer Johnson, who became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics, [1] French football star Michel Platini (), heavyweight boxing champion ...
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] It has taken place prior to every Games since.
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Rafer Johnson, pictured as a flagbearer at the 1960 Summer Olympics, was the first torchbearer. A runner carrying the torch near Tampa, Florida Muhammad Ali, the surprise final torchbearer, pictured in 2004. After burning in Athens for three weeks, HOC president Antonios Tzikas formally handed the flame to ACOG president Billy Payne on April 26.
It was commonly referred to as the AT&T Olympic Torch Relay, reflecting the lead sponsor of the event. The relay crossed the United States from New York City to Los Angeles, with 3,636 torchbearers running with the torch along a 9,375-mile (15,088 km) route. It was by far the longest Olympic torch relay that had been organized up to that point ...
List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron; This page is a redirect. The following categories are used to track and monitor this redirect:
The Olympic torch being punted down the River Cam during the Cambridge leg of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay. On water, the torch rode in a power boat in Bristol Harbour, [30] [31] in an RNLI lifeboat along the Menai Strait, [32] by ferry on the Mersey Ferry, [33] and by the steamboat MV Tern across Windermere.
The 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay was the transferral of the Olympic Flame to Sydney, ... The distance covered by each torchbearer was 105.478 km. Torchbearers