Tuesday, July 27, 2021

Snopes.com - Nazis and the Olympics torch, a "lane splitting" C-17, blue dunes on Mars, and very expensive fries

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26 July 2021

Tonight: Nazis and the Olympics torch, a "lane splitting" C-17, blue dunes on Mars, and very expensive fries

Was the Olympics Torch Relay a Tool of Nazi Propaganda?

In July 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Olympic flame did not make its traditional relay route through numerous countries in order to light the cauldron in Tokyo, Japan, for the start of the games. Normally the flame is transferred from one torch to another in a relay across nations, but in March 2020, starting in Olympia, Greece, the flame was flown directly to Japan where it waited as organizers scrambled to reschedule the postponed games due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

But where did this tradition originate from? Snopes reporter Nur Ibrahim reports.

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