Six Best Olympic Torches

Anthony Bijkerk, secretary-general of the International Society of Olympic Historians, and Donald Rooney, director of exhibitions at the Atlanta History Center, which includes the Centennial Olympic Games Museum name their favorite Olympic torches.

Of the six I liked these ones best:

PHOTOGRAPH BY IOC OLYMPIC MUSEUM
Helsinki, 1952. "Nothing special about the design,"Bijkerk
 comments. "But it's rare and expensive."

PHOTOGRAPH BY MARK METCALFE, GETTY
Sydney, 2000. Both men liked this one.
"Perhaps the most elegant design. Based on the Sydney Opera
House, and the first torch to burn under water," says Bijkerk.

PHOTOGRAPH BY IOC OLYMPIC MUSEUM
Lillehammer, 1994. "A special design, 154 centimeters high,
about as tall as a big man. Also because the last runner
sailed down the ramp of a ski jump holding it," Bijkerk says.

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