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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Obviously the Olympic flame never goes out!!!!!!!!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'm pretty sure that for the London 2012 torch relay they had 'spare flames' in Davy lamps from the original source in case the torch went out, rather than a bloke on standby with a bic lighter.
Lucky really that Russia is still a nation of heavy smokers, as all good olympians should be.
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Yes. I think the man with the cigarette lighter should be invited to run into the opening ceremony with his lighter aloft, smoking a fag. And the lighter should go to the IOC museum in Lausanne:
http://www.olympic.org/museum
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Comedy Goldsmith, yes, just down the road from me too. I'd pay to see it.
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The Olympic flame for Sochi, like for most Winter Olympics, was lit at Olympia in Greece. Whilst this is entirely appropriate for the Summer Olympics, personally I'd like to see all Winter Olympic flames lit in Norway in Morgedal at the home of the pioneer of recreational and competitive skiing Sondre Norheim, as has already been done for the three Winter Olympics of 1952,1960 and 1994.
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Comedy Goldsmith, one differnece I spotted compared to London 2012 - no one watching the flame go by. In so many places in GB the crowds were five or six deep even early in the morning
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I thought that the flame had to originate from some special flame? Hence the flame in london being followed by a spare flame in case of such incident...
i think this is a sign of things to come in sochi 
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| chrisb wrote: |
| Comedy Goldsmith, one differnece I spotted compared to London 2012 - no one watching the flame go by. |
Except 'bloke with cigarette lighter'. The hero of the 2014 Winter Olympics, without question.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I thought that the flame had to originate from some special flame? Hence the flame in london being followed by a spare flame in case of such incident...
i think this is a sign of things to come in sochi
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I think this is the only fully transparent process in Russia.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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chrisb,
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Comedy Goldsmith, one differnece I spotted compared to London 2012 - no one watching the flame go by. In so many places in GB the crowds were five or six deep even early in the morning
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Were you making this comment based upon the video above? If so, I'm pretty sure this film was taken just inside or just outside the Kremlin itself and consequently any crowds would have been kept well back behind a barrier. Then again, I'm not sure the Russians are likely to go quite as potty as we did about the flame itself. I never really 'got' the whole business of watching the flame go by. Nice to peer out the window as it passed, but I'm not sure I'd travel far to see it. Like the video above it does tend to be a fat man in a dodgy tracksuit carrying a slightly daft looking torch.
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You know it makes sense.
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foxtrotzulu, yes it was inside the Kremlin and it's closed to the general public afair.
Btw, that 'fat man in a dodgy tracksuit' is a legend - he saved 20 people from the bus which fall from the bridge and sunk in over 10m deep ice cold river. He dived and pulled them out one by one... Nearly died from pneumonia after that though.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Respect!!!!
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