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Under a Cloud, the Olympic Flame Begins Its Journey to the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics
Organizers in Ancient Olympia created a backup flame using sunlight amid forecasted rain to preserve the solar lighting tradition for the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics.
- Organizers in Ancient Olympia held an emergency rehearsal to light the flame for the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Games due to stormy weather forecast for the official lighting ceremony.
- An actress portraying an ancient high priestess used a concave mirror to concentrate the sun's rays onto a torch to ignite the flame, preserving a tradition inspired by the original Olympic Games.
- Organizers relied on weather forecasts based on mathematical algorithms and compared the predictions against actual outcomes to time the brief window of sun for the flame lighting.
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