Olympic torch starts Greece-to-Vancouver journey

Olympic torch starts Greece-to-Vancouver journey

Published Oct. 22, 2009 8:30 p.m. ET

The flame for the Vancouver Olympics was lit by the sun's rays in an ancient ceremony Thursday, heralding the start of the torch relay for the 2010 Winter Games.

The sun shone just enough over the fallen temples at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics for a Greek actress in a pagan priestess' white gown and sandals to focus its rays on a silver torch using a concave mirror.

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