Published in October 23rd, 2009
CNN reported that the torch for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics was lit in Olympia, Greece on Thursday. It will travel across the world for almost four months to the site of the Games. The Olympic fire was created by the traditional way of igniting a fire by focusing sunlight on a mirror. “The Olympic torch and flame are the symbols of the values and ideals which lie at the heart of the Olympic Games,” said International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge. Many Twitterers were tou