On Sunday the 6th October the Olympic torch
arrived in Russia for the Winter Olympics 2014.
The Winter
Olympics start next February in Sochi and it is the first time the flame has
been in Russia. The flame will take 123 days to cross 65,000km by 14,000 torch
bearers. The torch’s journey will even include a trip into space, a trip to the
North Pole on an atomic-powered icebreaker and ascend the highest peak in
Europe, Mount Elbrus!
The torch was
lit in Greece by the sun’s rays.
The Sochi 2014 President Dmitry Chernyshenko said “Russia,
for the first time in history, received one of the most important, well-known
symbols in the world – the Olympic Flame.
We are proud that our Russian torch relay will be unique.”
By Lottie
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