Russian President Vladimir Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic flame in Red Square on Oct. 6, but the relay to Sochi for the Winter Games got off to a rocky start when one of the torches went out.
The flame went out when a torch bearer ran through a passageway heading into the Kremlin. A man standing along the route pulled out a lighter and the flame leaped back to life.
The flame will travel from the western exclave of Kaliningrad to the easternmost point across the Bering Strait from Alaska, before reaching Sochi for the Feb. 7 opening ceremony. (AP)
来年2月にロシア・ソチで開催される冬季五輪の聖火リレーが始まった。10月6日、モスクワで行なわれた記念式典では、聖火が消えるハプニングもあった。
The Japan Times ST: October 18, 2013