the history of the olyimpic tourch

The Olympic Torch
When the Olympic torch lights the flame to mark the start of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games in September this year, the entire nation will celebrate as the Olympics return to Australia for the second time.
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Certainly nobody will feel the euphoria more than the design team at Blue Sky who created the torch. The winning design was unveiled to the world’s press on March 8 1999, but the hard work began almost 18 months earlier when senior designer Robert Jurgens and creative director Mark Armstrong began the process of responding to the SOCOG (Sydney 2000 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games) invitation to tender. 40 firms were invited to participate in the tender to design and manufacture the Olympic torch and community cauldrons.