Company: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana
Country: ITALY
Section: OLYMPIC GAMES
Discipline: Olympic Games
Year: 2016
Director: Sandro Fioravanti, Stefano Grazia
Producer: Rai Sport
Time: 35 min
Projection: Thursday 17 November – 18.40 – Sala Mostre
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Synopsis
This movie is about the history of the Olympic Summer Games torches from the first appearance in Amsterdam in 1928 to the one in London in 2012. Among the curiosities, in 1952 at the Helsinki Games with the participation for the first time of the Soviet Union, torch didn’t cross the Iron Curtain and, for the first time in history has been transported by plane and then turned on by Paavo Nurmi. Another significant moment to remember is in 2008 at the Beijing Olympic Games where the torch has traveled its longest journey, 137 thousand km in 5 months. Here, Li Ning, ex athlete, lighted the Tripod running in the air.