So the pantomime begins in London,tonight, although events have already taken place and medals have been won! But anyway,who cares,
So this running about with the torch thing. Well Prometheus (good name for a film), in ancient Greece, decided to use mirrors to use the Sun to start a fire which would burn forever, or until it rained, in front of Greek temples. So fast forward.......
The flame is lit at the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece and taken to wherever the games are being held. Before the era of metal lamps with small gas canisters inside them, the flame sort of went out, often and s the running round thing was ended. Until, fast forward again...........
In 1936, in Nazi Germany, the running thing made a come back. Some 3,300 runners took the flame through Greece,Bulgaria,Yugoslavia,Hungary,Austria,Czechoslovakia and then Germany, just in time for a black America, named Jesse Owens, to beat all of Hitler's athletes. Hitler took his forces through them too, during WW2.
So thanks to the German Nazi party we have all of these idiots running with a metal dodah containing a gas canister which could, quite easily bow up in their faces. Ho hum!
So this running about with the torch thing. Well Prometheus (good name for a film), in ancient Greece, decided to use mirrors to use the Sun to start a fire which would burn forever, or until it rained, in front of Greek temples. So fast forward.......
The flame is lit at the ruins of the Temple of Hera in Olympia, Greece and taken to wherever the games are being held. Before the era of metal lamps with small gas canisters inside them, the flame sort of went out, often and s the running round thing was ended. Until, fast forward again...........
In 1936, in Nazi Germany, the running thing made a come back. Some 3,300 runners took the flame through Greece,Bulgaria,Yugoslavia,Hungary,Austria,Czechoslovakia and then Germany, just in time for a black America, named Jesse Owens, to beat all of Hitler's athletes. Hitler took his forces through them too, during WW2.
So thanks to the German Nazi party we have all of these idiots running with a metal dodah containing a gas canister which could, quite easily bow up in their faces. Ho hum!
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