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The Olympic torch exists because athletes needed a dramatic entrance. Fire makes everything feel important.

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The modern Olympic torch relay was introduced at the 1936 Berlin Games, inspired by ancient Greek rituals with fire. The flame has symbolic meaning, not a dramatic entrance purpose.

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