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List of Olympic torch relays

The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games. It was invented by the Nazis and was first performed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries and to highlight the Aryan connections of Germany to Greece.[1] It has taken place prior to every Games since.

Although in the past some Olympic organizing committees organized torch relays which encompassed multiple countries, the International Olympic Committee now restricts international relays due to the protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay, in which the relay was met with protests at several international sites on its way to Beijing, China.[2]

Summer Olympic Games edit

Site of the Olympic Games Days Total length (in km) Total number of torchbearers Route
  Berlin 1936 8 3,422 3,422 OlympiaAthensThessaloniki (Greece) – Sofia (Bulgaria) – Belgrade (Yugoslavia) – Budapest (Hungary) – Vienna (Austria) – Prague (Czechoslovakia) – DresdenBerlin (Germany)

Two secondary relays carried the flame from Olympic Stadium in Berlin to the off-site aquatic venues: Grunau (for the rowing course), and Kiel (yachting). The cauldron in Kiel sat in an old Hanseatic galley in the bay. Kiel would also be the yachting site of the 1972 Munich Olympics.

 /  Cancelled 1940 Games
  Cancelled 1944 Games
  London 1948 13 7,870 3,372 OlympiaCorfu (Greece) (by ship) BariMilan (Italy) – LausanneGeneva (Switzerland) – BesançonMetz (France) – Luxembourg (Luxembourg) – Brussels (Belgium) – LilleCalais (France) (by ship)– Dover – London (Great Britain)

A second relay carried the flame from Wembley, where the Games were based, to the sailing centre at Torbay, via Slough, Basingstoke, Salisbury, and Exeter.

  Helsinki 1952 5 3,365 1,416 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Aalborg - Odense - Copenhagen (Denmark) (by ship) Malmö - Gothenburg - Stockholm (Sweden) - Tornio - Oulu - Helsinki (Finland). A second flame was lit in Pallastunturi (Finland) and joined the main one in Tornio
  Melbourne 1956 21 20,470 3,118 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Darwin - Brisbane - Sydney - Canberra - Melbourne (Australia)
  Stockholm 1956
(equestrian Games)
9 1,000 490 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Copenhagen (Denmark) (by ship) Malmö - Stockholm (Sweden)
  Rome 1960 14 2,750 1,529 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by ship) Syracuse - Catania - Messina - Reggio Calabria - Naples - Rome (Italy)
  Tokyo 1964 51 20,065 870 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Istanbul (Turkey) - Beirut (Lebanon) - Tehran (Iran) - Lahore (Pakistan) - New Delhi (India) - Rangoon (Burma) - Bangkok (Thailand) - Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) - Manila (Philippines) - Hong Kong (Hong Kong) - Taipei (Taiwan) - Okinawa - Tokyo (Japan, following four different routes)
  Mexico City 1968 51 13,620 2,778 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by ship) Genoa (Italy) (by ship) Barcelona - Madrid - Seville - Palos (by ship) Las Palmas (Spain) - San Salvador Island (Bahamas) - Veracruz - Mexico City (Mexico)
  Munich 1972 30 5,532 6,000 Olympia - Athens - Thessaloniki (Greece) - Istanbul (Turkey) - Varna (Bulgaria) - Bucharest - Timișoara (Romania) - Belgrade (Yugoslavia) - Budapest (Hungary) - Vienna - Linz - Salzburg - Innsbruck (Austria) - Garmisch-Partenkirchen - Munich (West Germany)
  Montreal 1976 5 775 1,214 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (satellite transmission of an electronic pulse) Ottawa (Ontario) - Montreal (Quebec) (Canada)
  Moscow 1980 31 4,915 5,000 Olympia - Athens - Thessaloniki (Greece) - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Bucharest (Romania) - Kishinev - Vinnytsia - Kiev - Tula - Moscow (USSR)
  Los Angeles 1984 83 15,000 3,636 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) New York – BostonPhiladelphiaWashingtonDetroit – Chicago – IndianapolisAtlantaSt. LouisDallasDenverSalt Lake CitySeattleSan FranciscoSan Diego - Los Angeles (USA)
  Seoul 1988 26 15,250 1,467 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Jeju - Busan - Seoul (South Korea)
  Barcelona 1992 51 6,307 10,448 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by ship) Empúries - Bilbao - A Coruña - Madrid - Seville (by airplane) Las Palmas - Málaga - Valencia (by ship) Palma de MallorcaBarcelona (Spain)
  Atlanta 1996 112 29,016 13,267 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Los Angeles (California) – Las Vegas (Nevada) – San Francisco (California) – Seattle (Washington) – Salt Lake City (Utah) – Denver (Colorado) – Dallas (Texas) – St. Louis (Missouri) – Minneapolis (Minnesota) – Chicago (Illinois) – Detroit (Michigan) - Boston (Massachusetts) – New York (New York) – Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) – WashingtonMiami (Florida) – Birmingham (Alabama) - Atlanta (Georgia) (USA)
  Sydney 2000 127 27,000 13,300 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Guam - Palau - Federated States of Micronesia - Nauru - Solomon Islands -Papua New Guinea - Vanuatu - Samoa - American Samoa - Cook Islands - Tonga - Queenstown - Christchurch - Wellington - Rotorua - Auckland (New Zealand) - Uluru (Northern Territory) - Brisbane (Queensland) - Darwin (Northern Territory) - Perth (Western Australia) - Adelaide (South Australia) - Melbourne (Victoria) - Canberra (Capital Territory) - Sydney (New South Wales) (Australia)
  Athens 2004 142 86,000 11,360 Olympia - Marathonas - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) Sydney - Melbourne (Australia) - Tokyo (Japan) - Seoul (South Korea) - Beijing (People's Republic of China) - Delhi (India) - Cairo (Egypt) - Cape Town (South Africa) - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Mexico City (Mexico) - Los Angeles - St. Louis - Atlanta - New York (USA) - Montreal (Canada) - Antwerp - Brussels (Belgium) - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Lausanne - Geneva (Switzerland) - Paris (France) - London (Great Britain) - Madrid - Barcelona (Spain) - Rome (Italy) - Munich - Berlin (Germany) - Stockholm (Sweden) - Helsinki (Finland) - Moscow (Russia) - Kyiv (Ukraine) - Istanbul (Turkey) - Sofia (Bulgaria) - Nicosia (Cyprus) - Iraklion - Thessaloniki - Patras - Athens (Greece)
  Beijing 2008 130 137,000 21,880 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) - Beijing (People's Republic of China) (by airplane) - Almaty (Kazakhstan) (by airplane) - Istanbul (Turkey) (by airplane) - Saint Petersburg (Russia) (by airplane) - London (Great Britain) (by airplane) – Paris (France) (by airplane) – San Francisco (USA) (by airplane) – Buenos Aires (Argentina) (by airplane) – Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) (by airplane) – Muscat (Oman) (by airplane) – Islamabad (Pakistan) (by airplane) – New Delhi (India) (by airplane) – Bangkok (Thailand) (by airplane) – Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) (by airplane) – Jakarta (Indonesia) (by airplane) – Canberra (Australia) (by airplane) – Nagano (Japan) (by airplane) – Seoul (South Korea) (by airplane) – Pyongyang (North Korea) (by airplane) – Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam) (by airplane) – Hong Kong (Hong Kong, China) (by ship) – Macau (Macau, China) (by airplane) – Sanya - Wuzhishan - Wanning - Haikou (Hainan) (by airplane) – Guangzhou - Shenzhen - Huizhou - Shantou (Guangdong) (by airplane) – Fuzhou - Quanzhou - Xiamen - Longyan (Fujian) (by airplane) – Ruijin - Jinggangshan - Nanchang (Jiangxi) (by airplane) – Wenzhou - Shaoxing - Hangzhou - Ningbo - Jiaxing (Zhejiang) (by airplane) – Shanghai (by airplane) – Suzhou - Nantong - Taizhou - Yangzhou - Nanjing (Jiangsu) (by airplane) – Hefei - Huainan - Wuhu - Jixi - Huangshan (Anhui) (by airplane) – Wuhan - Yichang - Jingzhou (Hubei) (by airplane) – Yueyang - Changsha - Shaoshan (Hunan) (by airplane) – Guilin - Nanning - Baise (Guangxi) (by airplane) – Kunming - Lijiang - Shangri-La (Yunnan) (by airplane) – Guiyang - Kaili - Zunyi (Guizhou) (by airplane) – Chongqing (by airplane) – Ürümqi - Kashgar - Shihezi - Changji (Xinjiang) (by airplane) – Lhasa (Tibet) (by airplane) – Golmud - Qinghai Lake - Xining (Qinghai) (by airplane) – Yuncheng - Pingyao - Taiyuan - Datong (Shanxi) (by airplane) – Jiuquan (by airplane) – Zhongwei - Wuzhong - Yinchuan (Ningxia) (by airplane) – Yan'an - Yangling - Xianyang - Xi'an (Shaanxi) (by airplane) – Dunhuang - Jiayuguan - Lanzhou (Gansu) (by airplane) – Hohhot - Ordos - Baotou - Chifeng (Inner Mongolia) (by airplane) – Harbin - Daqing - Qiqihar (Heilongjiang) (by airplane) – Changchun - Songyuan - Jilin - Yanji (Jilin) (by airplane) – Shenyang - Anshan - Dalian (Liaoning) (by airplane) –Qingdao - Linyi - Qufu - Tai'an - Jinan (Shandong) (by airplane) – Zhengzhou - Kaifeng - Luoyang - Anyang (Henan) (by airplane) – Shijiazhuang - Qinhuangdao - Tangshan (Hebei) (by airplane) – Tianjin (by airplane) – Guang'an - Leshan - Chengdu (Sichuan) (by airplane) – Beijing (People's Republic of China)

Sichuan route postponed to the end due to earthquake.

  London 2012 70 12,800 8,000 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) - Land's End - Plymouth - Exeter - Taunton - Bristol - Cheltenham - Worcester - Malvern (England) (by train) - Cardiff - Swansea - Aberystwyth - Bangor (Wales) (by train) - Chester - Stoke-on-Trent - Bolton - Liverpool (England) (by ship) - Douglas (Isle of Man) (by ship) - Portrush - Derry - Newry (Northern Ireland) (by airplane) - Dublin (Republic of Ireland) (by airplane) - Belfast (Northern Ireland) (by airplane) - Glasgow - Inverness - Kirkwall - Lerwick - Stornoway - Aberdeen - Dundee - Edinburgh (Scotland) (by train) - Alnwick - Newcastle - Durham - Middlesbrough - Hull - York - Carlisle - Bowness-on-Windermere - Blackpool - Manchester - Leeds - Sheffield - Cleethorpes - Lincoln - Nottingham - Derby - Birmingham - Coventry - Leicester - Peterborough - Norwich - Ipswich - Chelmsford - Cambridge - Luton - Oxford - Reading - Basingstoke - Winchester - Salisbury - Weymouth and Portland - Bournemouth - Southampton (England) (by ship) - Saint Peter Port (Guernsey) (by ship) - Saint Helier (Jersey) (by ship) - Portsmouth - Brighton and Hove - Brighton - Hastings - Dover - Maidstone - Guildford - London (England) (Great Britain)
  Rio de Janeiro 2016 106 20,000 12,000 Olympia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) - Lausanne - Geneva (Switzerland) (by airplane) - Brasilia (Federal District) - Goiânia (Goias) - Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) - Vitória (Espirito Santo) - Salvador (Bahia) - Aracaju (Sergipe) - Maceió (Alagoas) - Recife (Pernambuco) - Joao Pessoa (Paraiba) - Natal (Rio Grande do Norte) - Fernando de Noronha - Fortaleza (Ceará) - Teresina (Piaui) - Palmas (Tocantins) - São Luís (Maranhão) - Belém (Para) - Macapá (Amapá) - Boa Vista (Roraima) - Manaus (Amazonas) - Rio Branco (Acre) - Porto Velho (Rondônia) - Cuiabá (Mato Grosso) - Campo Grande (Mato Grosso do Sul)- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) - Florianópolis (Santa Catarina) - Curitiba (Paraná) - São Paulo (São Paulo) - Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro) (Brazil)
  Tokyo 2020 111 20,000 - Olympia (Greece) - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) - Fukushima (Fukushima) - Utsunomiya (Tochigi) - Maebashi (Gunma) - Nagano (Nagano) - Gifu (Gifu) - Nagoya (Aichi) – Nara (Nara) – Osaka (Osaka) – Kōchi (Kōchi) – Matsuyama (Ehime) – Kagoshima (Kagoshima) – Naha (Okinawa) – Nagasaki (Nagasaki) – Fukuoka (Fukuoka) – Hiroshima (Hiroshima) – Kobe (Hyōgo) – Kyoto (Kyoto) – Fukui (Fukui) – Kanazawa (Ishikawa) – Yamagata (Yamagata) – Akita (Akita) – Sapporo (Hokkaido) – Morioka (Iwate) – Sendai (Miyagi) – Shizuoka (Shizuoka) – Yokohama (Kanagawa) – Chiba (Chiba) – Saitama (Saitama) – Tokyo (Japan)

Irregular period, relay in Greece started on 12 March 2020 in Ancient Olympia, then curtailed in Sparta the next day, and later finished in Athens without spectators on 19 March 2020, the relay went later suspended on 25 March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic after the Olympics postponed to 2021. Japan relay started on 25 March 2021 in Naraha and ended on 23 July 2021 during the opening ceremony.

  Paris 2024 79 - 10,000 Olympia (Greece) – Marseille (by ship) (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur)Paris (Île-de-France) (France)
  Los Angeles 2028 - - - Olympia (Greece) – Los Angeles (USA)
  Brisbane 2032 - - - Olympia (Greece) – Brisbane (Australia)

Winter Olympic Games edit

Site of the Olympic Games Days Total length (in km) Total number of torchbearers Route
  Oslo 1952 2 225 94 MorgedalOslo (Norway)
  Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 5 Rome - VeniceCortina d'Ampezzo (Italy)
  Squaw Valley 1960 19 960 700 MorgedalOslo (Norway) (by airplane) - Los AngelesFresnoSquaw Valley (USA)
  Innsbruck 1964 8 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) ViennaInnsbruck (Austria)
  Grenoble 1968 50 7,222 5,000 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Paris – StrasbourgLyonBordeauxToulouseMarseilleNiceChamonixGrenoble (France)
  Sapporo 1972 38 18,741 16,300 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Okinawa (by airplane) Tokyo – Sapporo (Japan)
  Innsbruck 1976 6 1,618 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Vienna (route nr. 1) LinzSalzburgInnsbruck (route nr. 2) GrazKlagenfurtInnsbruck (Austria)
  Lake Placid 1980 15 12,824 52 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Shannon (Ireland) Langley Air Force Base, HamptonWashingtonBaltimorePhiladelphia – New York – AlbanyLake Placid (USA)
  Sarajevo 1984 11 5,289 1,600 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Dubrovnik (route nr. 1) SplitLjubljanaZagreb - Sarajevo (route nr. 2) SkopjeNovi SadBelgradeSarajevo (Yugoslavia)
  Calgary 1988 95 18,000 6,250 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) St. John’s, NewfoundlandQuébec CityMontrealOttawa – Toronto – WinnipegInuvik – Vancouver – EdmontonCalgary (Canada)
  Albertville 1992 58 5,500 5,500 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (on Concorde) Paris – NantesLe HavreLilleStrasbourgLimogesBordeauxToulouseAjaccioNiceMarseilleLyonGrenobleAlbertville (France)
  Lillehammer 1994 82[nb 1] 12,000[nb 1] 7,000[nb 1] OlympiaAthens (Greece) (mainly by airplane: FrankfurtStuttgartKarlsruheDüsseldorfCologneHamburg (Germany) – Copenhagen (Denmark)-– Helsinki (Finland) – Stockholm (Sweden) ) – OsloLillehammer (Norway)
(National torch relay: MorgedalKristiansandStavangerBergenGullfaks – Bergen – TrondheimTromsøSvalbard – Tromsø – Bodø – Oslo – Lillehammer (Norway) )[nb 1][3][4][5]
  Nagano 1998 51 3,486 6,901 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Tokyo (route nr. 1) HokkaidōChibaTokyoNagano (route nr. 2) OkinawaHiroshimaKyotoNagano (route nr. 3) KagoshimaOsakaShizuokaNagano (Japan)
  Salt Lake City 2002 85 21,275 12,012 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) AtlantaCharleston, South Carolina - Jacksonville, Florida - St. Augustine, FloridaOrlando, Florida - MiamiMobile, AlabamaBiloxi, MississippiNew Orleans - HoustonSan AntonioAustin, Texas - DallasLittle Rock, Arkansas - Memphis - Nashville, TennesseeLouisville, KentuckyCincinnatiPittsburghCumberland, Maryland – Washington, D.C. – BaltimorePhiladelphia – New York - Hartford, ConnecticutProvidence, Rhode Island - BostonBurlington, Vermont - Lake PlacidSyracuse - Cleveland - Columbus, Ohio – Chicago – Milwaukee - DetroitFort Wayne, IndianaIndianapolisLexingtonSt. Louis - Kansas CityOmahaWichita - Oklahoma CityAmarillo - Albuquerque - Phoenix – Los Angeles – San FranciscoSquaw ValleyRenoPortlandSeattleJuneauBoiseBozemanCheyenneDenverSalt Lake City (USA)[6]
  Turin 2006 75 11,300 10,000 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) RomeFlorenceGenoaCagliari - Valletta (Malta) – PalermoNaplesBariAnconaSan Marino (San Marino) – BolognaVeniceTrieste - Koper (Slovenia) - Klagenfurt (Austria) - TrentoCortina d'AmpezzoMilan - Lugano (Switzerland) - BardonecchiaAlbertville (France) - Turin
  Vancouver 2010 106 45,000+ 12,000+ OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) Victoria, British ColumbiaYukonNorthwest TerritoriesAlbertaSaskatchewanManitobaNunavutQuebecNewfoundland and LabradorNova ScotiaPrince Edward IslandNew BrunswickQuebecOntarioManitobaSaskatchewanAlberta (Canada) – Washington (USA) – Vancouver (Canada) [7]
  Sochi 2014 123 65,000 14,000+ OlympiaAmaliada - Elis - Pyrgos - Zacharo - Kalo Nero - Tripoli - Levidi - Lefkasi - Kalavryta - Patras - Rio - Missolonghi - Agrinio - Karpenisi - Lamia - Volos - Larissa - Katerini - Thessaloniki - Giannitsa - Naousa - Edessa - Florina - Kastoria - Grevena - Ioannina - Kalabaka - Trikala - Karditsa - Lamia - Amfissa - Delphi - Arachova - Livadeia - Athens (Greece) (by airplane) - Moscow - Kolomna - Odintsovo - Arkhangelskoye - Krasnogorsk - Dmitrov - Saint PetersburgKaliningradMurmanskArkhangelskYakutskVladivostokIrkutskNovosibirskKazanNizhny NovgorodVolgogradRostov-on-DonAstrakhanGroznySochi (Russia)
  Pyeongchang 2018 101 2,018 7,500 OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) - Incheon (by airplane) – Jeju (by airplane) – BusanUlsanGeoje - Tongyeong (by ship) - Changwon - Changnyeong - Sacheon (South Gyeongsang)Yeosu - Suncheon - Gangjin (by helicopter) - Mokpo - Damyang - Gokseong (South Jeolla)Muju - Jeonju (North Jeolla)Buyeo (South Chungcheong)DaejeonSejong – Osong – Jincheon - Chungju - Danyang (North Chungcheong)Bonghwa - Andong (North Gyeongsang)DaeguPohang (North Gyeongsang)Suwon (Gyeonggi)SeoulPaju - Yeoncheon (Gyeonggi) (by bike) – Hwacheon (by bike) - Goseong - Hwacheon - Hwacheon - Hoengseong - Samcheok - Jeongseon - Pyeongchang (Gangwon) (South Korea)
  Beijing 2022 3 - - OlympiaAthens (Greece) (by airplane) - Beijing - Zhangjiakou - Yanqing District - Beijing (China)
  Milan–Cortina d'Ampezzo 2026 - - - Olympia (Greece) – Milan and Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy)
  1. ^ a b c d For the 1994 Lillehammer Games, the flame for the national torch relay was lit at Sondre Norheim's birthplace in Morgedal, where the official 1952 & 1960 flames were lit in the same manner. The original plan to merge it with the official Olympia flame at Oslo was abandoned due to Greek opposition; only the official flame was used in the opening ceremony. All statistics are for the national torch relay only. The Morgedal flame was maintained and later used at the 1994 Winter Paralympics.

Youth Summer Olympic Games edit

Site of the Olympic Games Days Total length (in km) Total number of torchbearers Route
  Singapore 2010 22 26,700+ 2,400+ Olympia (Greece) – Berlin (Germany) - Dakar (Senegal) - Mexico City (Mexico) - Auckland (New Zealand) - Seoul (South Korea) - Singapore
  Nanjing 2014 108 104 Athens (Greece) - 258 different online locations from the 204 participating NOCs - Nanjing (People's Republic of China)
  Buenos Aires 2018 63 14,000 - Athens (Greece) - La Plata (Buenos Aires) - Parana (Entre Rios) - Santa Fe (Santa Fe) - Iguazu (Misiones) - Corrientes (Corrientes) - Jujuy (Jujuy) - Salta (Salta) - Tucuman (Tucuman) - Catamarca (Catamarca) - La Rioja (La Rioja) - Mendoza (Mendoza) - San Juan (San Juan) - Cordoba (Cordoba) - Neuquen (Neuquen) - Bariloche (Rio Negro) - Ushuaia (Tierra del Fuego) - Buenos Aires (Federal Capital) (Argentina)
  Dakar 2026 - - - Athens (Greece) - Dakar (Senegal)

Youth Winter Olympic Games edit

Site of the Olympic Games Days Total length (in km) Total number of torchbearers Route
  Innsbruck 2012 18 3,573 2,012 Olympia (Greece) - Innsbruck - Bregenz - St. Anton am Arlberg - Lienz - Klagenfurt - Semmering - Wien - Graz - Eisenstadt - St. Pölten - Linz - Salzburg - Schladming - Seefeld in Tirol - Kühtai - Kufstein - Innsbruck (Austria)
  Lillehammer 2016 74 - - Athens (Greece) - Lillehammer - Alta - Oslo - Gjøvik - Otta - Elverum - Trysil - Lillehammer (Norway)
  Lausanne 2020 110 - - Athens (Greece) - Lausanne - Morges - NyonYverdon-les-Bains - Payerne - Aigle - Ollon - University of Lausanne - Échallens - Château-d'Œx - Prilly - Bourg-en-Lavaux - Lausanne - Geneva - Neuchâtel - Lausanne (Switzerland)
  Gangwon 2024 47 - - Athens (Greece) - Gangwon Province (South Korea)

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Bowlby, Chris. "The Olympic torch's shadowy past", BBC News, 2008-03-05. Retrieved on 2009-10-21.
  2. ^ Zinser, Lynn (March 27, 2009). "I.O.C. Bars International Torch Relays". The New York Times. Retrieved August 3, 2012.
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on 2012-03-06. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  4. ^ . Archived from the original on 2011-07-20. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  5. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-12-02. Retrieved 2010-12-10.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. ^ . PR Newswire. Archived from the original on 14 October 2012. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
  7. ^ "Provincial and territorial routes", Vancouver 2010 official site, listing the exact stops on the tour.

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Route of the Olympic Torch redirects here For road in California see California county routes in zone A A1 The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia Greece to the site of an Olympic Games It was invented by the Nazis and was first performed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin as a way for Hitler to spread Nazi influence to other countries and to highlight the Aryan connections of Germany to Greece 1 It has taken place prior to every Games since Although in the past some Olympic organizing committees organized torch relays which encompassed multiple countries the International Olympic Committee now restricts international relays due to the protests during the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay in which the relay was met with protests at several international sites on its way to Beijing China 2 Contents 1 Summer Olympic Games 2 Winter Olympic Games 3 Youth Summer Olympic Games 4 Youth Winter Olympic Games 5 See also 6 References 7 External linksSummer Olympic Games editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed September 2016 Learn how and when to remove this message Site of the Olympic Games Days Total length in km Total number of torchbearers Route nbsp Berlin 1936 8 3 422 3 422 Main article 1936 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Thessaloniki Greece Sofia Bulgaria Belgrade Yugoslavia Budapest Hungary Vienna Austria Prague Czechoslovakia Dresden Berlin Germany Two secondary relays carried the flame from Olympic Stadium in Berlin to the off site aquatic venues Grunau for the rowing course and Kiel yachting The cauldron in Kiel sat in an old Hanseatic galley in the bay Kiel would also be the yachting site of the 1972 Munich Olympics nbsp nbsp Cancelled 1940 Games Main article 1940 Summer Olympics torch relay nbsp Cancelled 1944 Games Main article 1944 Summer Olympics torch relay nbsp London 1948 13 7 870 3 372 Main article 1948 Summer Olympics torch relayOlympia Corfu Greece by ship Bari Milan Italy Lausanne Geneva Switzerland Besancon Metz France Luxembourg Luxembourg Brussels Belgium Lille Calais France by ship Dover London Great Britain A second relay carried the flame from Wembley where the Games were based to the sailing centre at Torbay via Slough Basingstoke Salisbury and Exeter nbsp Helsinki 1952 5 3 365 1 416 Main article 1952 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Aalborg Odense Copenhagen Denmark by ship Malmo Gothenburg Stockholm Sweden Tornio Oulu Helsinki Finland A second flame was lit in Pallastunturi Finland and joined the main one in Tornio nbsp Melbourne 1956 21 20 470 3 118 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Darwin Brisbane Sydney Canberra Melbourne Australia nbsp Stockholm 1956 equestrian Games 9 1 000 490 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Copenhagen Denmark by ship Malmo Stockholm Sweden nbsp Rome 1960 14 2 750 1 529 Olympia Athens Greece by ship Syracuse Catania Messina Reggio Calabria Naples Rome Italy nbsp Tokyo 1964 51 20 065 870 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Istanbul Turkey Beirut Lebanon Tehran Iran Lahore Pakistan New Delhi India Rangoon Burma Bangkok Thailand Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Manila Philippines Hong Kong Hong Kong Taipei Taiwan Okinawa Tokyo Japan following four different routes nbsp Mexico City 1968 51 13 620 2 778 Main article 1968 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by ship Genoa Italy by ship Barcelona Madrid Seville Palos by ship Las Palmas Spain San Salvador Island Bahamas Veracruz Mexico City Mexico nbsp Munich 1972 30 5 532 6 000 Olympia Athens Thessaloniki Greece Istanbul Turkey Varna Bulgaria Bucharest Timișoara Romania Belgrade Yugoslavia Budapest Hungary Vienna Linz Salzburg Innsbruck Austria Garmisch Partenkirchen Munich West Germany nbsp Montreal 1976 5 775 1 214 Main article 1976 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece satellite transmission of an electronic pulse Ottawa Ontario Montreal Quebec Canada nbsp Moscow 1980 31 4 915 5 000 Main article 1980 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Thessaloniki Greece Sofia Bulgaria Bucharest Romania Kishinev Vinnytsia Kiev Tula Moscow USSR nbsp Los Angeles 1984 83 15 000 3 636 Main article 1984 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane New York Boston Philadelphia Washington Detroit Chicago Indianapolis Atlanta St Louis Dallas Denver Salt Lake City Seattle San Francisco San Diego Los Angeles USA nbsp Seoul 1988 26 15 250 1 467 Main article 1988 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Jeju Busan Seoul South Korea nbsp Barcelona 1992 51 6 307 10 448 Main article 1992 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by ship Empuries Bilbao A Coruna Madrid Seville by airplane Las Palmas Malaga Valencia by ship Palma de Mallorca Barcelona Spain nbsp Atlanta 1996 112 29 016 13 267 Main article 1996 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Los Angeles California Las Vegas Nevada San Francisco California Seattle Washington Salt Lake City Utah Denver Colorado Dallas Texas St Louis Missouri Minneapolis Minnesota Chicago Illinois Detroit Michigan Boston Massachusetts New York New York Philadelphia Pennsylvania Washington Miami Florida Birmingham Alabama Atlanta Georgia USA nbsp Sydney 2000 127 27 000 13 300 Main article 2000 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Guam Palau Federated States of Micronesia Nauru Solomon Islands Papua New Guinea Vanuatu Samoa American Samoa Cook Islands Tonga Queenstown Christchurch Wellington Rotorua Auckland New Zealand Uluru Northern Territory Brisbane Queensland Darwin Northern Territory Perth Western Australia Adelaide South Australia Melbourne Victoria Canberra Capital Territory Sydney New South Wales Australia nbsp Athens 2004 142 86 000 11 360 Main article 2004 Summer Olympics torch relayOlympia Marathonas Athens Greece by airplane Sydney Melbourne Australia Tokyo Japan Seoul South Korea Beijing People s Republic of China Delhi India Cairo Egypt Cape Town South Africa Rio de Janeiro Brazil Mexico City Mexico Los Angeles St Louis Atlanta New York USA Montreal Canada Antwerp Brussels Belgium Amsterdam Netherlands Lausanne Geneva Switzerland Paris France London Great Britain Madrid Barcelona Spain Rome Italy Munich Berlin Germany Stockholm Sweden Helsinki Finland Moscow Russia Kyiv Ukraine Istanbul Turkey Sofia Bulgaria Nicosia Cyprus Iraklion Thessaloniki Patras Athens Greece nbsp Beijing 2008 130 137 000 21 880 Main article 2008 Summer Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Beijing People s Republic of China by airplane Almaty Kazakhstan by airplane Istanbul Turkey by airplane Saint Petersburg Russia by airplane London Great Britain by airplane Paris France by airplane San Francisco USA by airplane Buenos Aires Argentina by airplane Dar es Salaam Tanzania by airplane Muscat Oman by airplane Islamabad Pakistan by airplane New Delhi India by airplane Bangkok Thailand by airplane Kuala Lumpur Malaysia by airplane Jakarta Indonesia by airplane Canberra Australia by airplane Nagano Japan by airplane Seoul South Korea by airplane Pyongyang North Korea by airplane Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam by airplane Hong Kong Hong Kong China by ship Macau Macau China by airplane Sanya Wuzhishan Wanning Haikou Hainan by airplane Guangzhou Shenzhen Huizhou Shantou Guangdong by airplane Fuzhou Quanzhou Xiamen Longyan Fujian by airplane Ruijin Jinggangshan Nanchang Jiangxi by airplane Wenzhou Shaoxing Hangzhou Ningbo Jiaxing Zhejiang by airplane Shanghai by airplane Suzhou Nantong Taizhou Yangzhou Nanjing Jiangsu by airplane Hefei Huainan Wuhu Jixi Huangshan Anhui by airplane Wuhan Yichang Jingzhou Hubei by airplane Yueyang Changsha Shaoshan Hunan by airplane Guilin Nanning Baise Guangxi by airplane Kunming Lijiang Shangri La Yunnan by airplane Guiyang Kaili Zunyi Guizhou by airplane Chongqing by airplane Urumqi Kashgar Shihezi Changji Xinjiang by airplane Lhasa Tibet by airplane Golmud Qinghai Lake Xining Qinghai by airplane Yuncheng Pingyao Taiyuan Datong Shanxi by airplane Jiuquan by airplane Zhongwei Wuzhong Yinchuan Ningxia by airplane Yan an Yangling Xianyang Xi an Shaanxi by airplane Dunhuang Jiayuguan Lanzhou Gansu by airplane Hohhot Ordos Baotou Chifeng Inner Mongolia by airplane Harbin Daqing Qiqihar Heilongjiang by airplane Changchun Songyuan Jilin Yanji Jilin by airplane Shenyang Anshan Dalian Liaoning by airplane Qingdao Linyi Qufu Tai an Jinan Shandong by airplane Zhengzhou Kaifeng Luoyang Anyang Henan by airplane Shijiazhuang Qinhuangdao Tangshan Hebei by airplane Tianjin by airplane Guang an Leshan Chengdu Sichuan by airplane Beijing People s Republic of China Sichuan route postponed to the end due to earthquake nbsp London 2012 70 12 800 8 000 Main article 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Land s End Plymouth Exeter Taunton Bristol Cheltenham Worcester Malvern England by train Cardiff Swansea Aberystwyth Bangor Wales by train Chester Stoke on Trent Bolton Liverpool England by ship Douglas Isle of Man by ship Portrush Derry Newry Northern Ireland by airplane Dublin Republic of Ireland by airplane Belfast Northern Ireland by airplane Glasgow Inverness Kirkwall Lerwick Stornoway Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Scotland by train Alnwick Newcastle Durham Middlesbrough Hull York Carlisle Bowness on Windermere Blackpool Manchester Leeds Sheffield Cleethorpes Lincoln Nottingham Derby Birmingham Coventry Leicester Peterborough Norwich Ipswich Chelmsford Cambridge Luton Oxford Reading Basingstoke Winchester Salisbury Weymouth and Portland Bournemouth Southampton England by ship Saint Peter Port Guernsey by ship Saint Helier Jersey by ship Portsmouth Brighton and Hove Brighton Hastings Dover Maidstone Guildford London England Great Britain nbsp Rio de Janeiro 2016 106 20 000 12 000 Main article 2016 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Lausanne Geneva Switzerland by airplane Brasilia Federal District Goiania Goias Belo Horizonte Minas Gerais Vitoria Espirito Santo Salvador Bahia Aracaju Sergipe Maceio Alagoas Recife Pernambuco Joao Pessoa Paraiba Natal Rio Grande do Norte Fernando de Noronha Fortaleza Ceara Teresina Piaui Palmas Tocantins Sao Luis Maranhao Belem Para Macapa Amapa Boa Vista Roraima Manaus Amazonas Rio Branco Acre Porto Velho Rondonia Cuiaba Mato Grosso Campo Grande Mato Grosso do Sul Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul Florianopolis Santa Catarina Curitiba Parana Sao Paulo Sao Paulo Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Brazil nbsp Tokyo 2020 111 20 000 Main article 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Greece Athens Greece by airplane Fukushima Fukushima Utsunomiya Tochigi Maebashi Gunma Nagano Nagano Gifu Gifu Nagoya Aichi Nara Nara Osaka Osaka Kōchi Kōchi Matsuyama Ehime Kagoshima Kagoshima Naha Okinawa Nagasaki Nagasaki Fukuoka Fukuoka Hiroshima Hiroshima Kobe Hyōgo Kyoto Kyoto Fukui Fukui Kanazawa Ishikawa Yamagata Yamagata Akita Akita Sapporo Hokkaido Morioka Iwate Sendai Miyagi Shizuoka Shizuoka Yokohama Kanagawa Chiba Chiba Saitama Saitama Tokyo Japan Irregular period relay in Greece started on 12 March 2020 in Ancient Olympia then curtailed in Sparta the next day and later finished in Athens without spectators on 19 March 2020 the relay went later suspended on 25 March 2020 due to the COVID 19 pandemic after the Olympics postponed to 2021 Japan relay started on 25 March 2021 in Naraha and ended on 23 July 2021 during the opening ceremony nbsp Paris 2024 79 10 000 Main article 2024 Summer Olympics torch relay Olympia Greece Marseille by ship Provence Alpes Cote d Azur Paris Ile de France France nbsp Los Angeles 2028 Olympia Greece Los Angeles USA nbsp Brisbane 2032 Olympia Greece Brisbane Australia Winter Olympic Games editSite of the Olympic Games Days Total length in km Total number of torchbearers Route nbsp Oslo 1952 2 225 94 Main article 1952 Winter Olympics torch relay Morgedal Oslo Norway nbsp Cortina d Ampezzo 1956 5 Rome Venice Cortina d Ampezzo Italy nbsp Squaw Valley 1960 19 960 700 Morgedal Oslo Norway by airplane Los Angeles Fresno Squaw Valley USA nbsp Innsbruck 1964 8 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Vienna Innsbruck Austria nbsp Grenoble 1968 50 7 222 5 000 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Paris Strasbourg Lyon Bordeaux Toulouse Marseille Nice Chamonix Grenoble France nbsp Sapporo 1972 38 18 741 16 300 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Okinawa by airplane Tokyo Sapporo Japan nbsp Innsbruck 1976 6 1 618 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Vienna route nr 1 Linz Salzburg Innsbruck route nr 2 Graz Klagenfurt Innsbruck Austria nbsp Lake Placid 1980 15 12 824 52 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Shannon Ireland Langley Air Force Base Hampton Washington Baltimore Philadelphia New York Albany Lake Placid USA nbsp Sarajevo 1984 11 5 289 1 600 Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Dubrovnik route nr 1 Split Ljubljana Zagreb Sarajevo route nr 2 Skopje Novi Sad Belgrade Sarajevo Yugoslavia nbsp Calgary 1988 95 18 000 6 250 Main article 1988 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane St John s Newfoundland Quebec City Montreal Ottawa Toronto Winnipeg Inuvik Vancouver Edmonton Calgary Canada nbsp Albertville 1992 58 5 500 5 500 Main article 1992 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece on Concorde Paris Nantes Le Havre Lille Strasbourg Limoges Bordeaux Toulouse Ajaccio Nice Marseille Lyon Grenoble Albertville France nbsp Lillehammer 1994 82 nb 1 12 000 nb 1 7 000 nb 1 Main article 1994 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece mainly by airplane Frankfurt Stuttgart Karlsruhe Dusseldorf Cologne Hamburg Germany Copenhagen Denmark Helsinki Finland Stockholm Sweden Oslo Lillehammer Norway National torch relay Morgedal Kristiansand Stavanger Bergen Gullfaks Bergen Trondheim Tromso Svalbard Tromso Bodo Oslo Lillehammer Norway nb 1 3 4 5 nbsp Nagano 1998 51 3 486 6 901 Main article 1998 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Tokyo route nr 1 Hokkaidō Chiba Tokyo Nagano route nr 2 Okinawa Hiroshima Kyoto Nagano route nr 3 Kagoshima Osaka Shizuoka Nagano Japan nbsp Salt Lake City 2002 85 21 275 12 012 Main article 2002 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Atlanta Charleston South Carolina Jacksonville Florida St Augustine Florida Orlando Florida Miami Mobile Alabama Biloxi Mississippi New Orleans Houston San Antonio Austin Texas Dallas Little Rock Arkansas Memphis Nashville Tennessee Louisville Kentucky Cincinnati Pittsburgh Cumberland Maryland Washington D C Baltimore Philadelphia New York Hartford Connecticut Providence Rhode Island Boston Burlington Vermont Lake Placid Syracuse Cleveland Columbus Ohio Chicago Milwaukee Detroit Fort Wayne Indiana Indianapolis Lexington St Louis Kansas City Omaha Wichita Oklahoma City Amarillo Albuquerque Phoenix Los Angeles San Francisco Squaw Valley Reno Portland Seattle Juneau Boise Bozeman Cheyenne Denver Salt Lake City USA 6 nbsp Turin 2006 75 11 300 10 000 Main article 2006 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Rome Florence Genoa Cagliari Valletta Malta Palermo Naples Bari Ancona San Marino San Marino Bologna Venice Trieste Koper Slovenia Klagenfurt Austria Trento Cortina d Ampezzo Milan Lugano Switzerland Bardonecchia Albertville France Turin nbsp Vancouver 2010 106 45 000 12 000 Main article 2010 Winter Olympics torch relay Olympia Athens Greece by airplane Victoria British Columbia Yukon Northwest Territories Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Nunavut Quebec Newfoundland and Labrador Nova Scotia Prince Edward Island New Brunswick Quebec Ontario Manitoba Saskatchewan Alberta Canada Washington USA Vancouver Canada 7 nbsp Sochi 2014 123 65 000 14 000 Main article 2014 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Amaliada Elis Pyrgos Zacharo Kalo Nero Tripoli Levidi Lefkasi Kalavryta Patras Rio Missolonghi Agrinio Karpenisi Lamia Volos Larissa Katerini Thessaloniki Giannitsa Naousa Edessa Florina Kastoria Grevena Ioannina Kalabaka Trikala Karditsa Lamia Amfissa Delphi Arachova Livadeia Athens Greece by airplane Moscow Kolomna Odintsovo Arkhangelskoye Krasnogorsk Dmitrov Saint Petersburg Kaliningrad Murmansk Arkhangelsk Yakutsk Vladivostok Irkutsk Novosibirsk Kazan Nizhny Novgorod Volgograd Rostov on Don Astrakhan Grozny Sochi Russia nbsp Pyeongchang 2018 101 2 018 7 500 Main article 2018 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Incheon by airplane Jeju by airplane Busan Ulsan Geoje Tongyeong by ship Changwon Changnyeong Sacheon South Gyeongsang Yeosu Suncheon Gangjin by helicopter Mokpo Damyang Gokseong South Jeolla Muju Jeonju North Jeolla Buyeo South Chungcheong Daejeon Sejong Osong Jincheon Chungju Danyang North Chungcheong Bonghwa Andong North Gyeongsang Daegu Pohang North Gyeongsang Suwon Gyeonggi Seoul Paju Yeoncheon Gyeonggi by bike Hwacheon by bike Goseong Hwacheon Hwacheon Hoengseong Samcheok Jeongseon Pyeongchang Gangwon South Korea nbsp Beijing 2022 3 Main article 2022 Winter Olympics torch relayOlympia Athens Greece by airplane Beijing Zhangjiakou Yanqing District Beijing China nbsp Milan Cortina d Ampezzo 2026 Olympia Greece Milan and Cortina D Ampezzo Italy a b c d For the 1994 Lillehammer Games the flame for the national torch relay was lit at Sondre Norheim s birthplace in Morgedal where the official 1952 amp 1960 flames were lit in the same manner The original plan to merge it with the official Olympia flame at Oslo was abandoned due to Greek opposition only the official flame was used in the opening ceremony All statistics are for the national torch relay only The Morgedal flame was maintained and later used at the 1994 Winter Paralympics Youth Summer Olympic Games editSite of the Olympic Games Days Total length in km Total number of torchbearers Route nbsp Singapore 2010 22 26 700 2 400 Main article 2010 Summer Youth Olympics torch relayOlympia Greece Berlin Germany Dakar Senegal Mexico City Mexico Auckland New Zealand Seoul South Korea Singapore nbsp Nanjing 2014 108 104 Main article 2014 Summer Youth Olympics torch relayAthens Greece 258 different online locations from the 204 participating NOCs Nanjing People s Republic of China nbsp Buenos Aires 2018 63 14 000 Athens Greece La Plata Buenos Aires Parana Entre Rios Santa Fe Santa Fe Iguazu Misiones Corrientes Corrientes Jujuy Jujuy Salta Salta Tucuman Tucuman Catamarca Catamarca La Rioja La Rioja Mendoza Mendoza San Juan San Juan Cordoba Cordoba Neuquen Neuquen Bariloche Rio Negro Ushuaia Tierra del Fuego Buenos Aires Federal Capital Argentina nbsp Dakar 2026 Athens Greece Dakar Senegal Youth Winter Olympic Games editSite of the Olympic Games Days Total length in km Total number of torchbearers Route nbsp Innsbruck 2012 18 3 573 2 012 Olympia Greece Innsbruck Bregenz St Anton am Arlberg Lienz Klagenfurt Semmering Wien Graz Eisenstadt St Polten Linz Salzburg Schladming Seefeld in Tirol Kuhtai Kufstein Innsbruck Austria nbsp Lillehammer 2016 74 Athens Greece Lillehammer Alta Oslo Gjovik Otta Elverum Trysil Lillehammer Norway nbsp Lausanne 2020 110 Athens Greece Lausanne Morges Nyon Yverdon les Bains Payerne Aigle Ollon University of Lausanne Echallens Chateau d Œx Prilly Bourg en Lavaux Lausanne Geneva Neuchatel Lausanne Switzerland nbsp Gangwon 2024 47 Athens Greece Gangwon Province South Korea See also editList of people who have lit the Olympic cauldronReferences edit Bowlby Chris The Olympic torch s shadowy past BBC News 2008 03 05 Retrieved on 2009 10 21 Zinser Lynn March 27 2009 I O C Bars International Torch Relays The New York Times Retrieved August 3 2012 Lillehammer 1994 Olympic Torch Archived from the original on 2012 03 06 Retrieved 2011 07 19 A Torch for the XVII Olympic Winter Games Lillehammer Norway 1994 Archived from the original on 2011 07 20 Retrieved 2011 07 19 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on 2010 12 02 Retrieved 2010 12 10 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link 2002 Olympic Torch Relay Route PR Newswire Archived from the original on 14 October 2012 Retrieved 24 November 2008 Provincial and territorial routes Vancouver 2010 official site listing the exact stops on the tour External links editFactsheet The Olympic Torch Relay Olympic org International Olympic Committee Golden glow for London 2012 torch BBC News Portal nbsp Olympics Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of Olympic torch relays amp oldid 1218439481, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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