olympic flame goes out :(

[brianmanahan]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho

 

[olds]

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

 

[jme5343]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho

The article you linked pretty much said it happens all the time.

 

[Baked]

If this happened at the Beijing Olympics, somebody would've been shot.

 

[brianmanahan]

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

lol true

if fire is criminalized then only criminals will have fire

 

[Ns1]

In transit, the flame sometimes travels by air. A version of the miner's safety lamp is used, kept alight in the air. These lamps are also used during the relay, as a back-up in case the primary torch goes out. This has happened before several Games, but the torch is simply re-lit and carries on.

The torch has twice been carried across water. The 1968 Grenoble Winter Games was carried across the port of Marseilles by a diver holding it aloft above the water.[12] In 2000 an underwater flare was used by a diver across the Great Barrier Reef en route to the Sydney Games.[17]

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[Crono]

It's happened multiple times.

It's not an ancient tradition, either.

 

[olds]

It's happened multiple times.

It's not an ancient tradition, either.

I am not so sure about that BoomerD tells me they used the torch in Macedonia with General Metellus.

 

[IronWing]

Stupid Brits. Stupid, stupid Brits. A wicker man is the only way to right this offense.

HAL

 

[brianmanahan]

Stupid Brits. Stupid, stupid Brits. A wicker man is the only way to right this offense.

NOT THE BEEEES!!!!!!!!!! NOooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[alkemyst]

The British, failing since 1775.

 

[gevorg]

if only they would floss their teeth...

 

[Bignate603]

The torch design had been tested at BMW's climatic centre in Munich to ensure it could stay alight in all weather conditions.

BMW reliability, go figure.

 

[Soccerman06]

No king of the hill reference?

 

[alkemyst]

BMW reliability, go figure.

Proof the British can screw up anything.

 

[Printer Bandit]

thank god for the mother flame.

 

[brianmanahan]

BMW reliability, go figure.

lol, if they made M3 torches, id buy 500 of them!

figure thats the amount id need to consider myself a legitimate olympian.

 

[Ns1]

BMW reliability, go figure.

The Premier Group in Coventry are making 8,000 torches, one for each Torchbearer during the 70-day Torch Relay around the UK.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/ol...de-the-London-2012-Olympic-torch-factory.html

 

[RossMAN]

lol, if they made M3 torches, id buy 500 of them!

LOL if we had a post of the day award, you would get it.

 

[mmntech]

No king of the hill reference?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMxH7JLVdhc

Britain, flames are probably against the law.

You might singe someone's fingers with that. Protecting you rabble, er, citizens from yourselves, it's our duty.

 

[qliveur]

lolympics

 

[MotionMan]

Wow, talk about a non-story.

This happens all the time on these stupid relays, every 2 years, multiple times.

MotionMan

 

[RbSX]

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/flame-goes-first-time-2012-123604487--oly.html

the olympic flame has gone out on the way to london! what a tragedy if memory servers me right this is the first time this has ever happened

hal and co should be ashamed of this dropped ball imho

They always have a second backup flame.

 

[thejunglegod]

meh. So what? Is it going to affect the outcome of the olympics?

 

[dust]

BMW reliability, go figure.

:thumbsup:

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