The Olympic Torch Tradition

The Olympic torch relay is not an ancient and noble tradition but was invented by the Nazis to glorify the Third Riech at the 1936 Berlin Games.

At the Seoul opening ceremony in 1988, some of the doves released were accidentally incinerated in the Olympic flame.

The current corporate version of the torch relay:

Ab Fab:

 

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