On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...
On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...
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 ...
The torch was lit in a traditional ceremony ... en route to the location of that year’s games originated in 1936 at the Berlin Olympics, and is attributed to Carl Diem, who was on an organizing ...
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