Olympic Flame

With only 961 days to go until the London 2012 Olympics the organisers have chosen the luck 8,000 inspirational people who have the honor to carry the traditional torch for a mile! They only had a 1 in 14 chance of being picked! Althought the route has already been released the 'Flames' do not know what mile they carry it. Congratulations to Jack Waring (AVHU) and Miss Abdulkarim for being chosen from our school, Dinnington Comprehensive. So why do we have the torch?  In Olympia (Greece), a flame was ignited by the sun and then kept burning until the closing of the Olympic Games.

Facts about the torch!

1. It has 8,000 dimples in, one for each Flame.
2. Every Flame gets to keep their own Torch. It is more like a Flame Relay than a Torch Relay which is  what has usually happened in the past.
3. The Flame will travel from Athens in Greece (The birthplace of the Olympics) to London in the United Kingdom (The host of the 2012 games).
4. The flame is then kept alight until the Games have concluded.
5. The Olympic Torch Relay represents a continuation from the ancient Olympic Games to the modern Olympics today.

So how do you get chosen?

You are nominated by someone who thinks that you are inspirational and then chosen according to your story. Wether you are an athlete or not does not matter. You can still carry the flame : as long as you don't eat the fire!

By Maisie Waring SCHE