So - it must stay alight right - yet it has to go to Rio. So, whose going to be allowed to sit on a plane with it eh?
I think I'm right, that they do put it out but don't tell you.....
It's re-lit each Olympic year - from the sun - in Greece.
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It's re-lit each Olympic year - from the sun - in Greece.
I thought you were joking but Google agrees with you. Doesn't answer the question though - how does it get from Greece, overseas whilst lit?
On a plane!
Davy lamps
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poor Davey
The fly it in Davey Lamps (Miners Safety Lamps, or at least they did to the UK.
So if the Olympic flame is lit in Greecem surely the paralympic flame should always be lit a Stoke Mandeveille where the paralympics were born... oh and my daughter almost 14 years ago 🙂
They use these for air travel (edit - too slow:-) )
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Davey Lamp, a wonderful invention.
Rebecca Loos is looking at that picture of beckham on the plane with those Davy lamps and thing 'ah, three old flames on a plane'.
I'll get my coat.....
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That is so unbelievably ridiculous !
As if the "olympic flame" has some sort of spiritual or magical powers which will be lost if it's extinguished and relight.
In fact I can't believe it's true.
symbollocks, innit, ernie.
Any kind of 'symbolism' is lost on ernie...