Global Times reporter covering international affairs, cross-Straits relations and Chinese society; a captive of his experiences. Photo: Xinhua. The second torchbearer, former Chinese short-track speed skater Li Jiajun, carries the torch after collecting the flame. As many of the designs for the Winter Olympic Games are being finalized, a number of traditional Photo: Xinhua With the red Chinese national flag and the blue Greek flag unfurled under the azure sky at Ancient Olympia, Greece, the Aegean nation was relieved of the gloom brought by rain of last week and basked in sunshine Monday.
The lighting of the Olympic flame for the Beijing Winter Olympics in Olympia reminded the world that it is officially entering Winter Olympics time, two months after the Tokyo Games.
At noon local time in Greece, the Olympic flag was raised to the sound of the Olympic anthem over the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Ancient Olympia, where the games were initially born 2, years ago. Dressed in archaic-style clothing, Greek actress Xanthi Georgiou, playing the role of the High Priestess, prayed to Apollo, the Olympian god of the sun and light, and half squatted, lighted the torch in her hand with a concave mirror that focused on the sun's rays.
Greece skier Ioannis Antoniou, as the first torch bearer, passed the Olympic flame to Chinese short track speed skater Li Jiajun, a four-time Olympian. The third leg of the torch relay will be held at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on Tuesday before the Hellenic Olympic Committee hands it over to the Beijing Olympic delegation. Or the torchbearer is just a little clumsy. A man dressed as a torch makes it into the Rio Olympic Torch Relay. One of the biggest challenges of the Olympic Torch Relay is dealing with goofballs in the crowd.
Some people will do anything to get on TV. One goofball handed the mayor of Sydney, Australia, a fake torch. It was just a wooden chair leg, silver paint, a tin can and a pair of underwear!
By the time the mayor realized it was a fake, the man had disappeared into the crowd. A torch bearer's flame has to be relit after it goes out in Fukushima, Japan on March 25, It says that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And sometimes it does! Has the torch ever shot sparks? People have come up with many creative ways to carry the flame. How would you help it reach its destination? Ready to keep learning?
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We are super excited to watch the games this year, too! For instance, nearly the entire Tokyo portion of the relay was moved off of public streets. The final torchbearer, who lights the Olympic cauldron during the Opening Ceremony, is typically a famous athlete, or athletes, from the host country. At the London Games, seven teenage athletes were nominated by legendary British Olympians to light the cauldron.
The identity of the cauldron lighter is kept under wraps until the Opening Ceremony, so we will have to wait until July 23 to find out who gets the honor at the Tokyo Olympics. Enriqueta Basilio, a Mexican sprinter, became the first woman to light the Olympic cauldron at the Mexico City Olympics. Johnson, a gold medalist in the decathlon, was also the first African American to carry the United States flag during an Opening Ceremony, doing so at the Games in Rome.
Antonio Rebello had one of the more thrilling lightings at the Olympics in Barcelona. The three-time Paralympic medalist in archery shot a flaming arrow at the cauldron from nearly feet away.
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