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Source: Russia Today
Athens : Greece | about 1 month ago  
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  • Greek actress Nafpliotou lights the Olympic torch during a lighting ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou lights the Olympic torch during a lighting ...
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  • Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, lights an Olympic torch during a dress rehearsal in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, lights ...
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  • Vassilis Dimitriadis leaves ancient Olympia's stadium with a Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics torch in ancient Olympia
    Vassilis Dimitriadis leaves ancient Olympia's stadium with a Vancouver ...
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  • Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, carry the Olympic flame of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in ancient Olympia
    Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, carry the Olympic ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises an Olympic torch in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises the Olympic torch in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Chief of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games John Furlong watches the Olympic flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia
    Chief of Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games John Furlong watches the ...
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  • Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, walk behind an Olympic torch of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in ancient Olympia
    Greek actresses, playing the role of priestesses, walk behind an ...
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  • Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises an Olympic torch during a dress rehearsal in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises an Olympic torch in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou, playing the role of High Priestess, raises ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Vancouver 2010 Games chief Furlong holds up a symbolic present t the torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia
    Vancouver 2010 Games chief Furlong holds up a symbolic present t the ...
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  • Spectators watch a dress rehearsal of a lighting ceremony for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in ancient Olympia
    Spectators watch a dress rehearsal of a lighting ceremony for the ...
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  • Greek actress Nafpliotou transfers an Olympic flame to the first torchbearer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou transfers an Olympic flame to the first ...
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  • A torchbearer raises an Olympic torch of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games during a dress rehearsal in ancient Olympia
    A torchbearer raises an Olympic torch of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic ...
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  • First torchbearer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Dimitriadis carries an Olympic torch during a lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia
    First torchbearer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games Dimitriadis ...
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  • Greek actress Nafpliotou transfers the Olympic flame to the first torchbearer of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games in ancient Olympia
    Greek actress Nafpliotou transfers the Olympic flame to the first ...
    Source: Reuters
  • Vasilios Dimitriadis carries an Olympic torch of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Games during a lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia
    Vasilios Dimitriadis carries an Olympic torch of the Vancouver 2010 ...
    Source: Reuters
Greek actress Nafpliotou lights the Olympic torch during a lighting ...
Actress Maria Nafpliotou, who is playing the role of an ancient Greek priestess, holds a pot with the Olympic Flame (AFP Photo / Aris Messinis) Olympic flame lit for Vancouver Games Published 22 October, 2009, 19:07 The Olympic flame for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver has been successfully lit in...
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  • News Source: pakistantimes | about 1 month ago
    The flame was lit here Thursday for the 2010 Winter Olympics and carried off by the first relay runner on a journey of more than 47,000 kilometres (nearly 30,000 miles) to Vancouver. The Games are scheduled to take place in Canada from February 12-28.
  • News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month ago
    The torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics got underway Thursday from ancient Olympia in Greece, with the sun's rays igniting the silver torch during a break in the clouds. Ottawa heads into Thursday's home game against Nashville having...
  • News Source: Russia Today | about 1 month ago
    Actress Maria Nafpliotou, who is playing the role of an ancient Greek priestess, holds a pot with the Olympic Flame (AFP Photo / Aris Messinis) Olympic flame lit for Vancouver Games Published 22 October, 2009, 19:07 The Olympic flame for the 2010...
  • News Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation | about 1 month ago
    The torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics got underway Thursday from ancient Olympia in Greece, with the sun's rays igniting the silver torch during a break in the clouds. The head of South African organizers for next year's World Cup...
  • News Source: Androscoggin News | about 1 month ago
    The torch relay for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics got underway on Thursday, with the sun's rays igniting the silver torch during a brief break in the clouds at the ancient Olympic stadium. It was the first time in the last four winter Games...
  • News Source: Uinta County News | about 1 month ago
    07, Thursday October 22, 2009 The olympic gods have smiled on Vancouver with a dress rehearsal of flame lighting ceremony for winter games going off without a hitch. The crowd waited with baited breath for more than two minutes for the Sun to ignite...
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    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
  • Blog Source: www.triple-tri.com
    The flame for the Vancouver Olympics was successfully 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 ...
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    The Vancouver 2010 Olympics torch-lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next week will see none of the protests that tarnished the Beijing Games event two years ago, the Greek Olympic Committee have said. Human rights activists disrupted ...
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  • Blog Source: 2010vanfan.ca
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  • Blog Source: transgriot.blogspot.com
    They will take the 2010 Olympic flame on a journey through Greece before sending it overseas to arrive in Victoria, BC October 30 to begin the Canadian portion of the Olympic torch relay there. What that means to this Olympics junkie is that we are
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