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 ...

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 ...

when the relayed torch will light the event's Olympic flame. The ceremonial torch lighting and relay first began during the 1936 Berlin Olympics.

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin ... It was also the first to introduce the now ubiquitous ritual of the torch relay, with bearers carrying a burning flame from Greece’s Mount Olympus.