What is Olympic flame?
The '''Olympic [[Flame]]''' or '''Olympic [[Torch]]''' is a [[symbol]] of the [[Olympic Games]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britannica.com/eb/topic-1102259/Olympic-flame |title=Britannica on Olympic Flame |accessdate=2008-07-24 |format= |work= }}</ref> A committee plans the route that it goes through, which ends at the city where the event is being hosted. Sometimes people use the torch route to make a point. During the 2008 Olympic torch relay to [[Beijing]], people talked about and held signs that were against [[China]]'s human rights record and signs that said [[Tibet]] was not a part of China. == References == {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_655.pdf IOC brochure on the history of Olympic Flame (1 MB PDF)]{{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325013924/http://multimedia.olympic.org/pdf/en_report_655.pdf |date=2009-03-25 }} * [http://www.abc.net.au/science/slab/torch/default.htm Olympic torch technology] {{sport-stub}} [[Category:Olympic symbols]] [[Category:Fire]]