• The 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from April 27 to July 19, leading up to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The route covered 26,875 kilometers...
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    The 2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay took the Olympic Flame across every habitable continent, returning to Athens, Greece. Every city which had hosted...
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    Committee now restricts international relays due to the protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, in which the relay was met with protests at several...
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  • The 1996 Summer Paralympics torch relay, also referred to as the NationsBank Paralympic Torch Relay to reflect the event's lead sponsor, was held between...
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  • in Amsterdam. The Olympic flame and the Olympic torch relay was first introduced to the Summer Olympics at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin by Carl...
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  • Olympics torch relay was run from November 15, 1987, to February 13, 1988, prior to the Calgary 1988 Winter Olympics. The planning of the Torch Relay...
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  • 2013-10-30. Retrieved 2013-11-07. "1952 Summer Olympics Torch – Tokyo". Retrieved 2013-11-08. "Olympic-museum 1968 torch". Archived from the original on 2012-07-27...
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  • The 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay was a 65-day run, from December 4, 2001, until February 8, 2002, prior to the 2002 Winter Olympics. The runners carried...
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  • Youth Olympic Games host city held in an IOC Session. The elections for the host cities of the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and 2012 Winter Youth Olympics were...
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    (a pseudonym), with whom he had a son. In 1996, he carried a torch in the 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay. Pelzer and Patsy divorced, and many years...
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    the Olympic Games. Barney argued that the Olympic torch had been commercialized since its inception in 1936, and that sponsors of the torch relay benefit...
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    the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, to the host city of the modern Olympic Games via a torch relay was...
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    interruption until the end of the Games. These torches and the relay tradition were introduced in the 1936 Summer Olympics by Carl Diem, the chairman of the event...
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  • 101 Most Awesome Moments in Entertainment list. During the 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay, Philadelphia native Dawn Staley was chosen to run up the museum...
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    unrefueled. Olympic Games portal Olympic Games abandoned due to war 1916 Summer Olympics 1940 Summer Olympics 1940 Winter Olympics 1944 Summer Olympics 1944...
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  • IOC" by Carl Diem, the originator of the modern tradition of the Olympic torch relay. Polish prisoners of war in the Woldenberg (Dobiegniew) Oflag II-C...
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    Richard B. Russell State Park (category 1996 Summer Olympics)
    and was an Olympic Torchbearer in the 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay. A Pavilion at the Park is named in his memory. Elberton’s Olympic torch bearer, Walter...
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  • The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games)...
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    previous time only a single bid had been issued for the Summer Olympics. The 1984 Olympic Torch Relay began in New York City and ended in Los Angeles, traversing...
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    Fritz Schilgen (category Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics)
    a German athlete and the final torchbearer of the first Olympic torch relay at the 1936 Summer Games. Schilgen was born in 1906 in Kronberg im Taunus,...
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  • host city. The 2008 Olympics were watched by 3.5 billion people worldwide, and featured the longest distance for an Olympic Torch relay. The 2008 Games also...
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    The 1996 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Atlanta, Georgia, United States...
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  • were also chosen among the torchbearers during the last leg of the Olympic torch relay during the opening ceremony despite not being French, and Djokovic...
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    seventy-metre waterfall'. On 10 May 2000 in Olympia, Greece, the 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay was commenced with a flame which would be carried by various...
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  • of the 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay was "Hope Lights Our Way". As determined by a 2009 IOC ruling that banned international torch relays for any future...
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  • flame. 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay 2010 Winter Paralympics torch relay 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay 2022 Winter Paralympics torch relay "Paralympic...
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  • was the introduction of the Olympic torch relay between Greece and the host nation. The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following...
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    Edmund Pettus Bridge. The 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay made its way across the bridge on its way to the Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. Andrew Young...
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  • responsibilities of two different organizers. See also: 1984 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Olympics, 1996 Summer Paralympics. If the joint management of the 1992 Games...
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  • The opening ceremony of the 1996 Summer Olympics took place in the evening on Friday, July 19 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium, Atlanta, United States...
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