How does the Olympic flame get across oceans?

The torch has been carried across water; the 1968 Grenoble Winter Games was carried across the port of Marseilles by a diver holding it aloft above the water. In 2000, an underwater flare was used by a diver across the Great Barrier Reef en route to the Sydney Games.

Does the Olympic torch travel around the world?

It was first used in modern times at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. It began in 1936 before the Summer Olympics in Berlin. Today, the torch relay starts in Greece. From there, it carries the Olympic flame around the world.

How did the Olympic flame travel electronically?

The Olympic flame was placed in front of a sensor that detects ionised particles and was then encoded into impulses and sent via satellite to Ottawa. The arrival of the signal activated a laser that recreated the Olympic flame in a 90 cm urn in the Canadian city.

How does the Olympic torch work?

At the ceremony, a parabolic mirror and the sun’s rays are used to ignite the Olympic flame. The flame is then passed on to the first torchbearer of the Olympic torch relay. This is usually done months in advance of the Games, but the flame for the Tokyo Olympics actually was produced over a year ago.

How does the Olympic torch travel?

The flame is carried by relay all the way to its final destination in the stadium. Although it is usually carried by runners on foot, other modes of transport are also used. For air transportation, the flame is sheltered in a security lamp, similar to a miner’s lamp. At night time, it is kept in a special cauldron.

How does the Olympic torch travel from continent to continent?

Since it has to get from Greece to Switzerland to the official country hosting the Olympic Games, it travels by plane to get there quickly. Once on land, the torchbearers can take over. Overall, the torch will travel 30,000 km: 20,000 km on the ground and 10,000 km in an airplane!

How does the Olympic torch stay lit underwater?

The Olympic flame was able to stay lit during the dive thanks to a special burner, which was designed and developed in a similar way to flares used for warning signals at sea.

Where is the Olympic flame lit?

Olympia
A few months before the opening of the Olympic Games, a flame is lit at Olympia, in Greece. The location recalls the link between the Ancient Olympic Games and their modern counterpart.

Where is the Olympic torch now?

Tokyo
After the postponement of the Summer Olympics to 2021, the torch display remained in Fukushima for at least a month before subsequently moved to Tokyo. The Olympic Flame would be later placed on display at Japan Olympic Museum from 1 September 2020 until 30 November 2020.

Where does the flame come from?

Typically, fire comes from a chemical reaction between oxygen in the atmosphere and some sort of fuel (wood or gasoline, for example). Of course, wood and gasoline don’t spontaneously catch on fire just because they’re surrounded by oxygen.

Where does the Olympic flame travel for kids?

After the ceremony at Olympia, the Olympic flame first travels around Greece, and is then transferred during a ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens from the prior Olympic city to the current year’s host city.

How is the Olympic flame transported to the Olympics?

The Olympic flame is known as the symbol of life and competitive spirit and thus it is important to keep the flame ignited throughout the games. As discussed earlier, the Olympics flame is transported by the Olympic runners, popularly known as the torch relay. In the year 1948, the Olympic flame was carried on a boat through the English Channel.

How does the Olympic torch travel long distances?

The first runner appears — always a Greek — and after the torch is lit, he or she begins the epic relay. But when the flame moves long distances, Wallechinsky says, it travels by private plane. “They have a miner’s lamp — but a very sophisticated, high-tech one — that allows the flame to stay lit.

Can the Olympic flame be flown from Athens to Tokyo?

However, from being lit in Greece to arriving at the Olympic opening ceremony, the flame must not be extinguished. Now, it would be fairly impractical to travel by land and/or sea to get from Athens to Tokyo. As a result, it is usually necessary to fly the flame to the host nation.

Where are the Olympic torch flames located on a plane?

During the 2012 Olympic Torch Relay, the flames were positioned in seats 1A and 1B on board a British Airways Airbus A319. In seat 1C was a police officer assigned to protect the flame.