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Olympic traditions
Olympic Flame
Olympic Torch Relay
Olympic symbols
Antique Games
Olympia
Summer Olympic Games
Athens
1896
Paris
1900
St. Louis
1904
Athens
1906
London
1908
Stockholm
1912
Antwerp
1920
Paris
1924
Amsterdam
1928
Los Angeles
1932
Berlin
1936
London
1948
Helsinki
1952
Melbourne
1956
Rome
1960
Tokyo
1964
Mexico City
1968
Munich
1972
Montreal
1976
Moscow
1980
Los Angeles
1984
Seoul
1988
Barcelona
1992
Atlanta
1996
Sydney
2000
Athens
2004
Beijing
2008
London
2012
Winter Olympic Games
Chamonix
1924
St. Moritz
1928
Lake Placid
1932
Garmisch Partenkirchen
1936
St. Moritz
1948
Oslo
1952
Cortina d'Ampezzo
1956
Squaw Valley
1960
Innsbruck
1964
Grenoble
1968
Sapporo
1972
Innsbruck
1976
Lake Placid
1980
Sarajevo
1984
Calgary
1988
Albertville
1992
Lillehammer
1994
Nagano
1998
Salt Lake City
2002
Turin
2006
Vancouver
2010
Sochi
2014
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Water Polo
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Olympic traditions
Olympic Flame
The Olympic Flame is one of the main symbols of the Olympic Games.
Years later, it became a tradition to entrust the honor of passing the last stage of the relay and lighting the fire in the Olympic bowl to any famous athlete or athlete with remarkable achievements.
It was lit in ancient Greece during the Games as a reminder of the feat of Prometheus who stole fire from Zeus, and gave it to people.
Since fire had a divine meaning for the Greeks, it burned in many sanctuaries of Olympia.
It was constantly lit on the altar of Hestia (the goddess of the hearth).
During the Olympiads celebrating Zeus, lights were also lit in the temples of Zeus and Hera.
This tradition was revived in 1928.
An employee of the Amsterdam Electric Power Company lit the first Olympic flame in the bowl of the Marathon Tower of the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam and since then this ritual has been an integral attribute of the modern Olympic Games.
The Olympic torch relay will finish on the day of the opening ceremony at the central stadium of the Games.
Very often, the last torchbearer remains unknown to the audience until the last moment, and usually it is a sports celebrity of the host country of the Games.
He runs to the Olympic Bowl, located at the very top of the grand staircase and lights the fire that burns during the continuation of the Games and is extinguished at the closing ceremony.
The first outstanding athlete who was given the high honor to light the Olympic flame was the nine time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi, who caused the strongest emotions among the audience at the Vhelsinki stadium in 1952.
Among the famous athletes who lit the Olympic Cup were French football star Michel Platini (1992), heavyweight boxer Muhammad Ali(1996), an Indigenous Australian (she always defended the rights of aborigines and ran out on the track with two flags after victories) Katie Freeman (2000) - for her, this Olympics was a victory, hockey player Wayne Gretzky (2010).
In some cases, the fire at the Olympic Stadium was lit by people symbolizing the high ideals of Olmpism.
Thus, the Japanese student Yoshinori Sakai, who was engaged in athletics at the University of Tokyo, who was born on August 6, 1945, on the day of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, opening the Tokyo Olympic Games in 1964, symbolized the rebirth of Japan after World War II.
And in 1976, in Montreal, two teenagers were entrusted to light the bowl (one of them was from the French speaking part of the country, the other from the English speaking part), symbolizing the unification of Canada.
The first woman to light the Olympic flame was the Mexican runner, the national champion in hurdles, Keta Basilio in 1968 in Mexico City.
In 2004, she again took part in the Olympic relay.
The Olympic torch is lit a few months before the start of the Olympic Games.
The fire begins its journey in the city where the ancient Olympic Games were held - in Olympia, as well as in ancient Greece - in the temple of Hera.
The actress, dressed as a ceremonial priestess in antique robes, lights the torch in the same way as it was done at the Games of antiquity.
It uses a parabolic mirror to focus the sun's rays at one point, thanks to its curved shape.
The energy of the sun creates a large amount of heat, which ignites the fuel in the torch when the priestess brings it to the center of the mirror.
If there is no sun on the day of the Olympic flame lighting ceremony, the priestess can light a torch from the fire lit on a sunny day before the ceremony.
The fire is carried in a pot to the altar at the ancient Olympic Stadium, where he lights the torch of the first runner of the relay.
Before the Winter Games, the relay race actually begins at the monument to Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games.
And then the Olympic torch relay begins.
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Information from books was used:
"From Olympia to Moscow" by Valery Steinbach,
"Sensations and scandals of the sports age" by Boris Bazunov,
"A short biographical dictionary: Athletes "by RIPOLL CLASSIC publishing house";
from the official website of the IOC www.olympic.org, from the website of the NOC of Russia www.olympic.ru
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