Have there ever been any mishaps with torch relays?
As in the torch being dropped or something embarrassing like that.
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In 1956, the equestrian events were held separately because of strict quarantine regulations in Australia. All carriers in the torch relay to Stockholm, where these events were held instead, travelled on horseback. At the stadium Guido Caroli, a speed skater who participated in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics. Skating with the torch, he tripped over a television cable but kept the flame burning.
At the Sydney Olympics in 2000 the cauldron carrying the flame became stuck on the tower for about three minutes, then continued on its way.
In 2004, the first global torch relay was undertaken, in a journey that lasted 78 days. When the Olympic flame came to the Panathinaiko Stadium, stadium of the 1896 Summer Olympics, to start the global torch relay, the night was very windy and the torch, lit by the Athens 2004 Organizing Committee Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, blew out due to the wind, but was re-lit from the back up flame taken from the original ceremonial flame at Olympia. This was the only time that the Olympic torch flame was put out.
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