olympic flame goes out :(

[brianmanahan]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy 🙁 if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho 😳 😡

 

[olds]

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

 

[jme5343]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy 🙁 if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho 😳 😡

The article you linked pretty much said it happens all the time.

 

[Baked]

If this happened at the Beijing Olympics, somebody would've been shot.

 

[brianmanahan]

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

lol true

if fire is criminalized then only criminals will have fire

 

[Ns1]

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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[Crono]

It's happened multiple times.

It's not an ancient tradition, either.

 

[olds]

It's happened multiple times.

It's not an ancient tradition, either.

I am not so sure about that BoomerD tells me they used the torch in Macedonia with General Metellus.

 

[IronWing]

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

HAL

 

[brianmanahan]

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

NOT THE BEEEES!!!!!!!!!! NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[alkemyst]

The British, failing since 1775.

 

[gevorg]

if only they would floss their teeth...

 

[Bignate603]

The torch design had been tested at BMW's climatic centre in Munich to ensure it could stay alight in all weather conditions.

BMW reliability, go figure.

 

[Soccerman06]

No king of the hill reference?

 

[alkemyst]

BMW reliability, go figure.

Proof the British can screw up anything.

 

[Printer Bandit]

thank god for the mother flame.

 

[brianmanahan]

BMW reliability, go figure.

lol, if they made M3 torches, id buy 500 of them!

figure thats the amount id need to consider myself a legitimate olympian.

 

[Ns1]

BMW reliability, go figure.

The Premier Group in Coventry are making 8,000 torches, one for each Torchbearer during the 70-day Torch Relay around the UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...de-the-London-2012-Olympic-torch-factory.html

 

[RossMAN]

lol, if they made M3 torches, id buy 500 of them!

LOL if we had a post of the day award, you would get it.

 

[mmntech]

No king of the hill reference?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxH7JLVdhc

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

You might singe someone's fingers with that. Protecting you rabble, er, citizens from yourselves, it's our duty.

 

[qliveur]

lolympics

 

[MotionMan]

Wow, talk about a non-story.

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

MotionMan

 

[RbSX]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy 🙁 if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho 😳 😡

They always have a second backup flame.

 

[thejunglegod]

meh. So what? Is it going to affect the outcome of the olympics?

 

[dust]

BMW reliability, go figure.

:thumbsup:

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