The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay was run from March 24 until August 8, 2008, prior to the 2008 Summer Olympics, with the theme of "one world, one dream"...
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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 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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The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay route involved 21 countries where the Olympic torch was carried between its lighting in Greece in March 2008 and...
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2000 Summer Olympics torch relay was the transferral of the Olympic Flame to Sydney, Australia, that built up to the 2000 Summer Olympics. The torch travelled...
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1940 Summer Olympics torch relay was planned for both of the proposed host cities. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded the 1940 Summer Olympics...
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The 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay was the first of its kind, following on from the reintroduction of the Olympic Flame at the 1928 Games. It pioneered...
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previous and future Summer Olympic cities, and finally returning to Greece for the 2004 Summer Olympics. The 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay spanned six continents...
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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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2010 Summer Youth Olympics torch relay was run from 23 July until 14 August 2010, prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics held in Singapore. The torch relay...
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The 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mount Everest was the special route of the torch relay as part of the 2008 Summer Olympics taking place in China. Torchbearers...
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The 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Beijing, the capital of the People's...
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The route of the 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay carried the torch through over 1000 communities across Canada, visiting different locations from October...
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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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Jin Jing (category Articles with unsourced statements from March 2008)
She was a torchbearer carrying the Olympic torch amid political protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in Paris, France. According to ABC...
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ceremony). 2008 Summer Paralympics torch relay 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay 2018 Winter Paralympics torch relay 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay 2022 Asian...
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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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first Youth Olympic Games held in China, making it the first country to host both regular and Youth Olympics following the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing...
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Alexandros Nikolaidis (category Taekwondo practitioners at the 2008 Summer Olympics)
match. On 24 March 2008, Alexandros Nikolaidis had the honour to be the first torch-bearer of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay. Later in the same...
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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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2014 Winter Olympics cauldron 2016 Summer Olympics cauldron 2022 Winter Olympics cauldron "New Lenovo-Designed Beijing 2008 Olympic Torch Relay Components...
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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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The 2004 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, were a summer multi-sport event held in Athens, the capital city of Greece...
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against the Olympic flame torch relay. One reason for the protest was that the torch relay was invented by the Nazis for the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin...
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before, during, and after the 2008 Summer Olympics, and which received major media coverage. Leading up to the Olympics, there were concerns about human...
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2012. The Olympics torch relay ran from 19 May to 27 July 2012, before the Games. Plans for the relay were developed in 2010–11, with the torch-bearer selection...
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Ravi Shastri (section The Indian summer)
was named the Celebrity Torchbearer for the Oman Leg of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay. In July 2017 Shastri, the former team director, was appointed...
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at St. Chad's College, Durham University (UK) 2008 torchbearer of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in St Petersburg, Russia 2014 TED Talk: Let's save...
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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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