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About the Olympics torch

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MsAmerica · 26/07/2024 03:31

Did you know that the Olympics torch-lighting relay/ceremony was created by the Nazis?

Just learned that.

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Billybagpuss · 26/07/2024 04:58

Just googled it was first lit at the 1928 games but the Berlin Olympics was the first actual relay.

there was a lot of bad feeling after the tone of the 1936 Olympics but that was more about how people were expecting to react in the rise of nazi Germany . The opening ceremony in real terms was the most expensive ever so no surprise they added the relay. 1948 in London was called the austerity games in comparison.

Flapjacker48 · 29/07/2024 07:47

Much of the "imagery" of the modern Olympics was derived in the 1936 Berlin games (and the equivalent winter Olympics)

MsAmerica · 01/08/2024 02:33

Billybagpuss · 26/07/2024 04:58

Just googled it was first lit at the 1928 games but the Berlin Olympics was the first actual relay.

there was a lot of bad feeling after the tone of the 1936 Olympics but that was more about how people were expecting to react in the rise of nazi Germany . The opening ceremony in real terms was the most expensive ever so no surprise they added the relay. 1948 in London was called the austerity games in comparison.

The part that interested me, though, wasn't the relay, but the drama of the lone runner entering the stadium and running up the steps to light the caldron.

I thought it was much more elegant and moving than the fragmented messiness of the Paris version now - and an American forum damned me for supposedly being pro-Hitler.

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