The Olympic flame is ignited in Greece
and carried to each host city.
What is unusual about how they ignite it?

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Accepted Answer

They use no fuel or matches — sunlight is focused through a parabolic mirror at Olympia’s ancient Temple of Hera. — Since 1936. If clouds cover the sun, the ceremony uses a pre-lit backup flame kept ready for exactly that reason. Ceremony over pragmatism.

The Olympic flame is ignited in Greece and carried to each host city. What is unusual about how they ignite it?