The Olympic Flame and the Opening Ceremony
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The Olympic Flame and the Opening Ceremony
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Months before the Olympic games begin, the Olympic flame is ignited in Olympia, Greece using the sun’s rays and a mirror.
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After the torch is lit, relays of runners carry the flame from Olympia, Greece to the site
of the Olympic games, which is Sochi, Russia this year.
http://en.ria.ru/video/20130930/183850464.html (1:12)
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This year the flame will travel more than 65,000 km (40,390 miles) for 123 days
before reaching Sochi.
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The design of
the torch has changed throughout the years.
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The Olympic torch for the Sochi 2014 games looks like this:
http://torchrelay.sochi2014.com/en/our-torch
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History was made when 3 Russian cosmonauts carried an unlit torch OUTSIDE of the International Space Station. The torch had been in
space 3 times before but never outside of the space shuttles.
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The cosmonauts took pictures with the Space Station and Earth in the background.
http://www.space.com/23540-olympic-torch-taken-out-on-spacewalk-video.html (6:09)
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The torch relay included camels.
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The torch relay included reindeer.
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The torch travelled on tanks.
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The torch was carried on a dragon boat.
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The torch travelled on other boats.
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The torch was carried by a runner in front of St. Basil’s Cathedral outside of Red Square in Moscow.
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The final runner will take the torch into the stadium during the Opening Ceremony and will light the
Olympic cauldron. The flame will burn throughout the Olympic games.
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Also at the Opening Ceremony is the Parade of Nations. The athletes of each
country will enter the stadium in a certain order.
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Greece always enters first because the Olympics originated there. The hosting
country (which is Russia this year) is last.
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The other countries enter in alphabetical order. This year the teams will enter according to the country names in Russian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Winter_Olympics_Parade_of_Nations
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Opening Ceremonies will be held this year in Sochi’s Fisht Olympic Stadium on Friday, February 7th.
http://www.nbcolympics.com/
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Let’s hear it for Team U.S.A!