There perhaps is not a more symbolic and equally visible item at the Olympic Games than the Olympic torch. Every four years ... with the symbolism of fire and thus makes the link between the ...

History of the torch relay The Olympic flame dates back to the 1928 Amsterdam Games, where a symbolic fire was lit in a cauldron and put on display atop the Olympic Stadium. Eight years later, at the ...

But the “ring of fire” isn’t actually burning – it’s an illusion made up of clouds of mist and beams of light. Mathieu Lehanneur designed the Olympic cauldron and torch for the Paris ...

France chose a few select athletes to receive the Olympic torch and light the cauldron ... Man has always associated with the symbolism of fire and thus makes the link between the ancient and ...