Fireis a sacred symboly dating back to prehistoric times.In ancient greece it symbolized the creation of the world ligth.It was also the sacred symbol of hephaestus,and gift to the human race from promthelas.Who stole it from zeus( Greeks God in olympics).At the centre of every city-state in ancient greece there was an altar with a ever-burning fireand in every home sacred flme burned,deicate to hestia, goodes of the family.Torch relay races started in ancient greece as religious rituals held at nnigth.Soon they turned into a teakm thletic event.For the olympic games the sacrd flame is fit in olmpia by the head piestess,in the same way as in antiquality,and the ritual includes he atheletes oath.The flame is tthen transmitted to the torch of the first runner,and the journey of the torch relay begins cits magic still touching people today.The modern torch relay is a non-cometitive replication of the ancient flame relay symbolic celebration of the olympic game. People have received the torch and have thereby undertaken to preserve and quicken its precious flame lest our youth imporarilly let the olympic torch fall fom their hands other young people on the other side of the world are prepared to pick it up again."
