Sentence examples for olympic fire from inspiring English sources

Olympic Fire sounds like West Side Story relocated to Chinatown.

Early in the evening, Leonard Slatkin and the Royal Philharmonic gave the world premiere of Chen Yi's Olympic Fire.

The runner circles the track, mounts the steps, and lights the Olympic fire that burns night and day during the Games.

A fanfare is sounded, the Olympic fire is extinguished, and, to the strains of the Olympic anthem, the Olympic flag is lowered and the Games are over.

Maier had been the eighth skier down the mountain in the first training run for Sunday's downhill, the traditional lighting of the inner Olympic fire.

"In a few minutes," he said, "the torch bearer will appear to light the Olympic fire on his tripod, when it will rise, flaming to heaven, for the weeks of the festival.

Twitter user Shiratori_52 said the Summer Games logo used a red colour symbolising passion and the Olympic flame's "holy fire", while the Paralympics logo's colour represented the bright future of disabled people.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - In the latest mishap to befall the Olympic flame, a Russian torchbearer's clothing caught fire this week as he carried it through a Siberian city.

After all despite their intensity the fires could not and could never extinguish the Olympic flame.

If one thinks of fire in Greece, either a hillside blaze on an arid Greek Island or the kindling of the Olympic flame may spring to mind.

Austrian Olympic officials fired a coach at the heart of the investigation.