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olympic flame goes out :(

In transit, the flame sometimes travels by air. A version of the miner's safety lamp is used, kept alight in the air. These lamps are also used during the relay, as a back-up in case the primary torch goes out. This has happened before several Games, but the torch is simply re-lit and carries on.

The torch has twice been carried across water. The 1968 Grenoble Winter Games was carried across the port of Marseilles by a diver holding it aloft above the water.[12] In 2000 an underwater flare was used by a diver across the Great Barrier Reef en route to the Sydney Games.[17]

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Stupid Brits. Stupid, stupid Brits. A wicker man is the only way to right this offense.







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Wow, talk about a non-story.

This happens all the time on these stupid relays, every 2 years, multiple times.

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