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Your opinion of the Olympic-torch relay - which kicked off Oct. 22 with a traditional flame-lighting ceremony in Greece - is likely to reflect your opinion of the Olympics themselves. If international cooperation and glory keep you misty-eyed from the opening ceremony through the last...
In the wake of World War II, the relay took on more peaceful overtones. For the 1948 Summer Games in London, the relay's first runner, a Greek army corporal, symbolically removed his military uniform before setting off. Four years later, the first torch relay for Oslo...
Host countries often construct an itinerary for the torch relay that showcases points of national pride. On its way to Mexico City in 1968, the torch retraced Christopher Columbus' path to the New World; one of its pit stops was at the Great Pyramid of the Moon...
Runners are the torch's primary means of transportation, though in recent years the flame has also been carried by boat (Mexico City, 1968; Barcelona, 1992; Atlanta, 1996), horseback (Stockholm, 1956; Atlanta), parachute (Lillehammer, Norway, 1994), snowmobile (Calgary, Canada, 1988) and camel (Sydney, 2000). During its...
The final IOC report made little mention of the security situation other than to euphemistically note that the city "faces public security challenges." FIFA, for its part, declared that Brazil's "authorities have the know-how and resources to improve the situation before 2014, and would have the determination to...