
Cast hiduminium and perforated steel
Weight: .08 kg, Height: 47 cm with burner, Diameter: 22. cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Source: Victoria and Albert Museum Image Collections
The Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games is Friday, July 27. The dramatic high point of the ceremony in recent years has been the lighting of the cauldron with the Olympic torch. We'll celebrate this event with a few examples of the Olympic torch from our image databases:

Mosaics [detail] on Olympic Stadium, Mexico City, ca. 1956
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision
Source: Archivision Architectural Images

© Associated Press
Source: AP Images

Source: Tim Hipps, U.S. Army [Public domain],
via Wikimedia Commons