Passing the Torch

Actress Ino Menegaki as high priestess, left, passes the Olympic Flame to the first torch runner - Greek champion skier Giannis Antoniou - during the final dress rehearsal at Ancient Olympia, in west southern Greece.
Actress Ino Menegaki as high priestess, left, passes the Olympic Flame to the first torch runner - Greek champion skier Giannis Antoniou - during the final dress rehearsal at Ancient Olympia, in west southern Greece.Thanassis Stavrakis—AP

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