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The Olympic Flame or Olympic Torch is a symbol of the Olympic Games. A committee plans the route that it goes through, which ends at the city where the event is being hosted. Sometimes people use the torch route to make a point. During the 2008 Olympic torch relay to Beijing, people talked about and held signs that were against China's human rights record and signs that said Tibet was not a part of China.

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  • Marathontoren01

    The Marathon Tower at the Amsterdam Olympic Stadium, where the first modern Olympic flame burned in 1928

  • Olympic Torch 2010

    Igniting the Olympic flame in a dress rehearsal in Greece, using the sun's energy

  • Soihtuviesti Muuramessa 15.7.1952. Suomen Urheilumuseo.

    Olympic torch relay, 1952

  • 1996 Olympic Torch during the relay

    Olympic torch relay, 1996

  • Olympic Torch in Beverley (geograph 2999469)

    Olympic torch relay, 2012

  • ISS-37 Mikhail Tyurin arrives the ISS

    The 2014 Olympic torch in space during Soyuz TMA-11M

  • Revezamento da tocha paralímpica em Brasília (28771838043)

    2016 Summer Paralympics torch relay

  • Olympiatuli 1952

    Paavo Nurmi lighting the Olympic flame in Helsinki in 1952

  • Olympiastadion Berlin Innenansicht

    Traditional Olympic cauldrons often employ a simple bowl-on-pedestal design, such as the cauldron used for the 1936 Summer Olympics

  • RIAN archive 104486 22nd Olympics opening gala

    Olympic cauldron at Moscow 1980

  • Seoul Olympic torch

    Kim Won-tak (athlete), Chong Son-man (teacher) und Son Mi-jong (dance student) during the lighting of the Olympic cauldron at Seoul 1988

  • Barcelona AUGUST 1992 the Olympic Games (Juegos Olímpicos de Barcelona 1992) - panoramio

    Olympic cauldron at Barcelona 1992

  • Atlanta cauldron during 1996 Paralympics

    Olympic cauldron at Atlanta 1996

  • Olympic flame at opening ceremony

    Olympic cauldron at Athens 2004 during the opening ceremony

  • Braciere Olimpico

    Olympic cauldron at Turin 2006

  • Beijing 2008 Olympic cauldron lighting (cropped)

    Olympic cauldron at Beijing 2008 during the opening ceremony

  • Vancouver 2010 Public Caldron

    Public cauldron of Vancouver 2010

  • Flame going out (4)

    More artistic and abstract designs for cauldrons, including the 2012 Summer Olympics cauldron, have also been used.

  • Opening of XXII Winter Olympic Games (2338-13)

    Cauldrons can also take on monolithic forms, an example of which being the "cauldron tower" used for Sochi 2014

  • 2016 Summer Olympics opening ceremony 1035326-olimpiadas abertura-4006

    The Rio 2016 cauldron features a kinetic sculpture with a small flame.

  • Candelária cauldron at 2016 Summer Olympics

    The Rio 2016 public cauldron in downtown Rio de Janeiro

  • 2022 Winter Olympics cauldron at Yanqing Winter Olympic Cultural Square (20220219134049)

    One of the three public flames of Beijing 2022

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