Lighting and Handing-Over Ceremony of the Olympic Flame

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Lighting and Handing-Over Ceremony of the Olympic Flame
OLYMPIA, GREECE - OCTOBER 22: John Furlong, chief Executive Officer of VANOC (Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games), holds a pot during the Ceremony of the Lighting of the Olympic Flame for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games at the Ancient Olympia site on October 22, 2009 in Olympia, Greece. Torchbearers will carry the Olympic Flame from Ancient Olympia on a 2180km relay through Greece for eight days before a hand-over ceremony at Panathenian Stadium in Athens on October 29 to members of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for its transfer to Canada. (Photo by Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)