To: Right Cal Gal
It was about the incredible honor of running with a symbol of athletic excellence. Technically, the torch run originated from the 1936 Olympics, Nazi Germany started it as a symbol of showing off their superiority(sic).
10 posted on
04/09/2008 4:29:23 PM PDT by
mnehring
To: mnehrling
Really? I hadn’t heard that. I just remember being so excited to see it in 1964...
I don’t know who I admired more then - Jessie Owens or Wilma Rudolph.
15 posted on
04/09/2008 4:35:26 PM PDT by
Right Cal Gal
(Abraham Lincoln would have let Berkeley leave the Union without a fight)
To: mnehrling
I read somewhere today that the practice of running the Olympic torch on an multi-country itinerary only started in 2000. Previously the flame was transported from Greece to the host country and was run through the host nation only, culminating in arriving at the scene of the opening cremony and igniting the big flare.
The Olympic flame, when carried surrounded by the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army goons-in-baby blue jumpsuits and the sea of Commmunist Red flags, has turned it into a parade of the "torch of repression."
33 posted on
04/09/2008 5:05:45 PM PDT by
Procyon
(To the global warming fanatics the problem is too many people and the solution is genocide.)
To: mnehrling
True, but the Olympic Flame had already been lit at the games since 1928 in Amsterdam. This was the first time it was run on a relay through multiple countries. (7 in all)
69 posted on
04/10/2008 8:46:15 AM PDT by
CougarGA7
(Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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