The modern olympic torch w-5

During the modern Olympic Games in Amstardam Stadium fire was lit in one of the towers in that stadium, but there was no torch relay. The Berlin 1936 summer Olympic Games was witnessed through the first torch relay in the modern Olympics. The History professor, Carl Diem the secretary of the organizating committee of the XI Olympaid in Berlin. He suggested the inclusion of the torch relay in the Olympics. The Olympic torch was lit in Olympia and
Relayed in Greece and it was transported to Berlin via a torch Relay, in 1936 the culdron was lit.

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