Lighting The Torch
A woman playing the part of a High Priestess lights a torch from the Olympic flame during a ceremony held inside the museum at Ancient Olympia,18th December 1967, she is also holding an olive branch. The torch will be carried to Grenoble to arrive for the Winter Olympics in 1968. (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

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51524240
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Hulton Archive
Date created:
January 18, 1967
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Hulton Archive
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