The Olympic torch relay for the 2002 Winter Olympics passed through the arch.

She also went to Greece to take footage of the games ' original site at Olympia, where she was aided by Greek photographer Nelly, along with route of the inaugural torch relay.

In May 2012, Land's End received widespread attention as the starting point of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay.

According to Pausanias ( 2nd century AD ), the torch relay, called lampadedromia or lampadephoria, was first instituted at Athens in honor of Prometheus.

On January 1, 2010, Twain carried the Olympic Torch through her hometown as part of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.

A torch carried in relay by cross-country runners is used to light the Olympic flame which burns without interruption until the end of the Games.

In contrast to the Olympic flame proper, the torch relay of modern times, which transports the flame from Greece to the various designated sites of the games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the controversial 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The torch briefly travels around Greece via short relay, and then starts its transfer to the host city after a ceremony in the Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens.

Carl Diem devised the idea of the torch relay for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin that was organized by the Nazis under the guidance of Joseph Goebbels.

Leni Riefenstahl later staged the torch relay for the 1938 film Olympia.

In 1956, all carriers in the torch relay to Stockholm, where the equestrian events were held instead of in Melbourne, travelled on horseback.

In 2004, the first global torch relay was undertaken, a journey that lasted 78 days.

Over the years, it has become a tradition to let famous athletes, former athletes and / or athletes with significant achievements and milestones be the last runner in the Olympic torch relay and have the honor of lighting the Olympic Cauldron.

The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay spanned all six inhabited continents before proceeding through China, but was met with protests in London, Paris, and San Francisco.

The design of the torch used in the relay to the Games changes for each Games.

These lamps are also used during the relay, as a back-up in case the primary torch goes out.

* 2004 Summer Olympics torch relay

* 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay

* 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay

* Panamerican Torch, a torch relay associated with the Panamerican Games

* Asian Games Torch, a torch relay associated with the Asian Games

* Live feed of current torch relay

The torch relay, however, would not occur until the 1936 Summer Olympics.

It was also noted that Kim Jong-il did not appear in public for the Olympic torch relay in Pyongyang on 28 April 2008.

As it happened, the Olympic torch was passing through St. Louis on its way to Salt Lake City for the 2002 Winter Olympics, and Smith served as a torchbearer in a ceremony with St. Louis Rams ' quarterback Kurt Warner that evening.

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He carried the Olympic torch through Lake Placid in 2002 shortly before his death.

In January 2002, Joseph Frederick, a student at JDHS, unfurled a banner reading " Bong Hits 4 Jesus " across from the school in an effort to get on television as the Olympic torch relay passed the school.

He also won a bronze medal, and lit the torch at the 2002 National Kidney Foundation U. S. Transplant Games.

Phillips was also chosen to help carry the Olympic torch on its relay across the United States for the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Ahead of a Special Olympics competition, law enforcement officers carry the torch in intervals along a planned route covering most of the state or country to the site of the opening ceremonies of the chapter or Special Olympics World Summer or Winter Games.

Although this rule takes effect with the 2014 Winter Olympics, the organizers of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London chose to hold their torch relays only in their respective hosting countries of Canada and the United Kingdom ( except for brief stops in the United States and Ireland, respectively ).

He was one of the torch carriers for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino, Italy.

The Olympic Flames for the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo and the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, and the flame used in the national torch relay for the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer ( which was later used as the flame for the 1994 Winter Paralympics ), were all lit at the birthplace of Sondre Norheim, Øvrebø in Morgedal.

Even a winter torch relay featured a dragonboat when the torch was ferried over False Creek in Vancouver during the final leg of the longest Olympic torch relay ever, leading up to the opening ceremony of the 2010 Winter Games.

As an Austrian gold medalist, Haas was selected with luger Josef Feistmantl to light the Olympic torch for the opening of the 1976 Winter Olympics on 4 February 1976.

Linden took part in the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay when the flame was in Vancouver before the opening ceremony.

RBC was the co-presenting sponsor, along with Coca-Cola, of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay.

The conclusion of the torch relay began the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver BC.

He was one of the torchbearers and brought the flame into the stadium to light one of the final torch lighters in the 2010 Winter Olympics.

In 1952, at Morgedal, Bjaaland lit the torch for the 1952 Winter Olympics.

In January 2006, Jure Franko participated in the 2006 Winter Olympic torch relay, by relaying the torch from Slovenia to Italy at the Slovenian-Italian border in Nova Gorica.

He was in the company of other notable Canadians: Jason Kenney ( Member of Parliament ) and Heather Reisman ( Chair and CEO, Indigo Books and Music Inc .) Butts was a torch bearer for the 2010 Winter Olympic Games.