Oracles of Olympics

The historical flames of the Olympic suffered several flames out while it was put into navigation around the site of Europe
to celebrate the cause of historical Olympics games. When it comes to the flame out this year Kremlin incident requires special mention because following the occasion the torchbearer unfortunately set himself on fire. Beside that 73 year old man scarified his life while performing the short relay.

In course of its nerve wrecking run which covered the distance of 40000 mile journey, the torched was thrust into the bottom of the world’s deepest lake which is Lake Baikal of Siberia then it was shipped to the North pole through the help of Nuclear powered ice breaker; then it was heaved to the summit of Mount Elbrus and was even put forward to space for time being.

The opening ceremonies of the winter Olympics was started at 8 p.m. and the torch was detailed with beauty of red aluminum and it weighs around 1.8 kilograms and when it comes to its measurement than the baton scales 3 ft high and is reminiscent of a phoenix feather.

Reader must understand that the torch which was used in Sochi winter Olympics which was conducted by Russia held the torch which is not as same as the one that gets passes around like badges but it’s rather appointed to everyone who is allotted to carry it.

The torch is actually a flame itself and for Sochi Olympics they manufactured 14000 torches for 14000 torch bearers.

Torch Tidbits

As compare to old halves of the Olympics games the torch relay is relatively modern one and it was in 1936 summer games when Berlin hosted the flags and called for a summer retreat and since carrying baton or torch has become a custom of the Olympic Games.

Although the summer Olympics was very much intervened by German powers like Nazi but today’s ceremonies relate nothing discriminatory rather it shares the message of peace and the divine evidence of that is Olympic flame.

When we look at its inception than one must look back at the period when Greeks started the torch race and as per the mythology the torch was concealed from the possession of gods and was conferred to a man by Prometheus.

If you will look at the present flame then it uses the rays which are reflected from the parabolic mirror, which the IOC says "guarantees the purity of the flame."

Olympia Greece can be considered as goodbye to point for all torches because the contemporary world includes the phenomenon for the same. At present the torch gets carried out via space capsule, plane, boat, horseback, canoe, bicycle, London Underground, and reindeer sleigh.

Here are the lists of the some of the adventure ride that leap along with the torch

An underwater visit to the Great Barrier Reef (Sydney, Australia, 2000)

A ride on the Concorde (Albertville, France, 1991)

A blessing by Pope Benedict XVI (Turin, Italy, 2006)

Being sent in coded impulses from a satellite in Greece to Canada, where a laser translated the code back into a flame (Montreal, Canada, 1976)

Further the pioneer insignia of the Olympics especially torch is highly collectible. Now if you talk about the record stock that was spend while buying the torch was euro 290,000 which was held in house of Paris in 2011. That amazing and genuine silver Birchwood torch, which was used in the Helsinki Games in 1952, was one of only 22 made for that year's relay.