Saturday 2nd May 2026
The Olympic flame (#1,261)
Photo: Martin Dawes @ Wikipedia. (CC BY-SA 2.0)
For each edition of the Olympic Games, the Olympic flame is lit at Olympia, Greece, and carried to the host city by the Olympic torch relay, which ends with the lighting of the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
1. How is the Olympic flame lit at the start of the relay?
2. At the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, a rainstorm extinguished the Olympic flame a few days after the games had opened. How did an official relight it?
3. What was notable about the Olympic cauldron at the 2024 games in Paris?
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