132 days before the Opening Ceremony of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, the Olympic Flame was lit in Ancient Olympia, Greece. The lighting marked the symbolic start of the Olympic Torch Relay. The Relay will cover over 65,000 km and will take place in all 83 regions of Russia. The Flame will reach the Olympic Stadium in Sochi on February 7 for the Opening Ceremony.
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1/11/2013
1/11/2013
The Olympic flame has experienced record low temperatures as the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay continues its journey across Russia ahead of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games.
As the Torch reached Yakutsk, the capital of the Republic of Sakha and one of the coldest cities on Earth, which lies on the continuous permafrost zone, the temperature dropped to minus 35ºC – the lowest temperature so far recorded on the Torch Relay.
18/11/2013
The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay has completed the air travel segment of its journey across Russia and will now continue its way around the country by train, as the 123-day relay enters its seventh week.
Between now and the Opening Ceremony of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games on 7 February 2014, the Olympic flame will travel a record 17,400 kilometres by rail in a specially designed train, decorated in the official orange patchwork quilt brand of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay.
On its journey it will cross the borders of 53 Russian regions and will be carried by approximately 10,000 Torchbearers in 76 cities of the Far Eastern, Siberian, Volga, Southern and North Caucasian Federal Districts.
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