Olympic flame symbolizes purity, an attempt to improve and fight for the victory, as well as peace and friendship. The symbol of the opening of each Olympic Games is the Olympic flame ignition.
Torch lit in Olympia, a directed beam of sunlight, formed by a concave mirror, then it is delivered to the main stadium during the Games opening ceremony, where it is ignited by the fire in a special bowl of the stadium. Olympic torch is lit until the close of the Olympics. The tradition of the Olympic flame ignition has not changed for several centuries, but he perfected the torch.
The torch for the Olympics in Vancouver, was developed by Bombardier. Two years it took dozens of engineers and designers to develop and test a modern flare. Engineers have created a special fuel (a mixture of propane and isobutane), which burns at a low temperature, and the special design of air intakes, creates flame in the form of the flag.
Results were manufactured 12 thousand torches in the number of participants baton length of 45000 km. The length of the Olympic torch is 945 mm and weighs 1.6 kg.
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