On August 1, 1936, Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler opened the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany. In doing so, he inaugurated what is now a famed ritual of a lone runner bearing a torch carried from ...

The flame was reintroduced to the Olympics at the 1928 Amsterdam Games but the first modern torch relay was at the 1936 Berlin Summer Games when a flame was lit in Olympia, Greece and carried to ...

With the flame returning to the modern Olympics for the first time at Amsterdam 1928, the idea of a torch and torch relay was first introduced at Berlin 1936. Each Olympics, the flame is lit in a ...

History of the torch relay The Olympic flame dates back to the 1928 Amsterdam Games, where a symbolic fire was lit in a cauldron and put on display atop the Olympic Stadium. Eight years later, at the ...

It was the first Olympics that introduced the torch relay, where a lighted torch ... His performances in the 1936 Games suggested he may have been right, but for far different reasons.

The 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin ... It was also the first to introduce the now ubiquitous ritual of the torch relay, with bearers carrying a burning flame from Greece’s Mount Olympus.