10 Facts About Olympic torch

The modern Olympic torch flame is ignited every two years in front of the ruins of the temple of Hera.

The Olympic torch relay was first introduced to the Summer Olympics at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

The Olympic torch has 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.

In 2004, the first global Olympic torch relay was undertaken, a journey that lasted 78 days.

In Paris the Olympic torch was extinguished at least twice by Chinese officials so that it could be transported in a bus amid protests while it was being paraded through Paris.

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Current design of the Olympic torch has a safeguard built into it: There are two flames inside the Olympic torch.

The fuel contained inside the Olympic torch is able to keep it lit for approximately 15 minutes before it would be extinguished.

Olympic torch was chosen for the role to symbolize Japan's postwar reconstruction and peace, opening the 1964 Tokyo Games.

Two years later, the Olympic torch fire was brought into the stadium of Lillehammer by a ski jumper.

Olympic torch flame has been used as a symbol and a main motif numerous times in different commemorative coins.