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Originally Posted by jaysay
Research into occult practices will not interest most balanced people on the planet, its only people with a warped suspicious mind that it interests  |
Well it was the Nazi's who first started running long distance with an Olympic flame, it was a local thing in Ancient Greece but the Nazi's where the first to make it into a big ceremony...carried through to this day.
Carl Diem (born June 24, 1882,
Würzburg – December 17, 1962,
Cologne) was a German sports administrator, and as Secretary General of the Organizing Committee of the Berlin Olympic Games, the chief organizer of the
1936 Olympic Summer Games (sometimes referred to as the "Nazi Olympics").
He created the tradition of the
Olympic torch relay when he organised
the 1936 build-up event, and was an influential historian of sport, particularly the Olympic games.