Poll on Sochi Torch Run

[Victor Mata]

Ehhh. Looks clunky and clubby. But better colors than London's which really looked like chicken coop wire just rolled up.

Looks Salt Lake-ish in its clubness with a sharper ice theme. These sharper designs fit the winter games very well, evoking a sense of more speed, danger and energy than the curve edges on many torches lately.

[gotosy]

Coca-Cola and Ingosstrakh became Presenting Partners of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay

On 21 September, in the framework of the XI International Investment Forum "Sochi 2012", the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has signed agreements with Coca-Cola and Ingosstrakh, for them to become Presenting Partners of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, which will be presented by Coca-Cola and Ingosstrakh, will begin on October 7th 2013 and is expected to be the longest national Olympic Torch Relay in the history of the Winter Games.

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http://www.sochi2014...een/news/59402/

[world atlas]

Full series from the same website ( just changed the number in the link and it worked and I found more 7 pics!)

[world atlas]

I just found the source!

RAKETAMEDIA

Raketamedia is now one of the three finalists of the The Olympic Cauldron and Torch Design National Contest.

We designed concept of Dynamic Sculpture based Olympic Cauldron.

It's composed of 120 petals mounted on rotating electric driven axes. So the Cauldron appears as an object constantly changing its shape. Its waves follow flows of warm air when the fire is burning at the top of it.

Designers: Anton Sakara, Alex Yaichnikov, Anton Shavkero, Uly Ulianitsky, Oleg Barankin

Artist: Ilya Balakin

Producer: Alexei Lebedev

Link:

http://www.raketamed...Cauldron-Design

[Kenadian]

The blue one looks like the new 2 World Trade Center in New York.

[Olympian2004]

I just found the source!

RAKETAMEDIA

Raketamedia is now one of the three finalists of the The Olympic Cauldron and Torch Design National Contest.

We designed concept of Dynamic Sculpture based Olympic Cauldron.

It's composed of 120 petals mounted on rotating electric driven axes. So the Cauldron appears as an object constantly changing its shape. Its waves follow flows of warm air when the fire is burning at the top of it.

Designers: Anton Sakara, Alex Yaichnikov, Anton Shavkero, Uly Ulianitsky, Oleg Barankin

Artist: Ilya Balakin

Producer: Alexei Lebedev

Link:

http://www.raketamed...Cauldron-Design

That would be the ugliest Olympic cauldron of all time by far. An Olympic cauldron has to exude at least a little bit of grace and should not look like a plump plastic tube that has gone through atomic war.

I'm surprised, though, that there (allegedly) is or was a national contest for the look of the cauldron and the torch.

[baron-pierreIV]

Are those graphics for real?

Thus, the cauldron kinda like these...

http://g4.img-dprevi...BBD2FA08532.jpg

[gotosy]

Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay To Unite The Whole Of Russia

07 October 2012

To mark one year before the arrival of the Olympic Flame to Russia, the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee has announced the route that the Olympic flame will travel in the hands of 14,000 torchbearers, over 123 days, and through 2,900 towns and settlements.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay, presented by Coca-Cola, Ingosstrakh Insurance Company and JSC Russian Railways, will cover over 65,000 kilometers on foot, and by car, train, plane, and even on a Russian "troika" - a traditional Russian sleigh pulled by horses or reindeer. Up to 130 million Russians are expected to be able to see the Relay as it travels around the country. Dmitry Chernyshenko, Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee President and CEO, announced the capitals of the different Russian regions that the Olympic Flame will visit at a ceremony held today in Moscow.

According to tradition, the Olympic flame will be lit in Olympia, Greece, fr om where it will be transported to Moscow on October, 7^th, 2013 and the next day, it is expected to start its journey across Russia. While traveling across the entire country, the Relay will take a route fr om Moscow to Sochi and visit many important historic, cultural and picturesque areas of Russia, including Yasnaya Polyana, the Russian part of the Curonian Spit, the Avachinskiy Volcanoes and the Kizhi Museum Reserve. The relay will then celebrate the new Olympic year in one of the most beautiful cities in Russia, Kazan.

So that as many Russians as possible can experience the magic of the Olympic Torch Relay, the route has been designed to try and ensure that 90% of Russia's population will be within an hour of the Relay at some stage. This should allow about 130 million residents to be able to see and participate in the event.

The Sochi 2014 Olympic Torch Relay will become the longest in the history of the Olympic Winter Games and also among exclusively national relays, in terms of the distance that the relay will cover. The flame will visit more than 2,900 towns and settlements across all 83 Russian regions, from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, covering on average 535 kilometers per day. 14,000 torchbearers and 30,000 volunteers are expected to participate in the Relay.

The President of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, Dmitry Chernyshenko, noted:

"The Olympic Torch Relay is one of the most important and magical Olympic occasions. It continues the build-up of excitement ahead of the Games and as well as spreading the Olympic values to the whole country, we will be creating, as a nation, an important part of Russian history. I am sure that the Olympic Torch Relay will be welcomed by a wonderful celebration in every city it visits. The Sochi 2014 Relay will bring the entire country together, highlighting the diversity and beauty of Russia, particularly, for the people of Russia themselves. For one day during the Relay, each town or settlement that the Olympic Flame visits will become the centre of attention and it will be a unique chance to showcase itself to the whole world".

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Sochi 2014

[world atlas]

The relay will then celebrate the new Olympic year in one of the most beautiful cities in Russia, Kazan.

So the olympic flame will celebrate the new year in the " Sports Capital of Russia "

It would be fantastic. congratulations Kazan

[afiqnadzir]

cant wait for the torch design..

[Olympian2004]

An average 535 kilometres per day - that's the distance between Hamburg and Stuttgart, between London and Edinburgh or only slightly less than the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example. That shows how massive that torch relay will be and what a huge country Russia is.

[baron-pierreIV]

An average 535 kilometres per day - that's the distance between Hamburg and Stuttgart, between London and Edinburgh or only slightly less than the distance between Los Angeles and San Francisco, for example. That shows how massive that torch relay will be and what a huge country Russia is.

And it's probably not even going to go over the Urals. That relay is going to be murder on the Relay team unless they are well rotated and/or compensated.

[Olympian2004]

And it's probably not even going to go over the Urals.

Of course it will. They say that the torch will be relayed across all regions of Russia, "from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok" and that they want to "ensure that 90% of Russia's population will be within an hour of the Relay at some stage".

[mattygs]

The Sochi Torch Relay logo Im guessing, looks good to me.

[gotosy]

Sochi 2014 Space Trip Still Planned

Sochi 2014 chiefs maintain that the planned journey to the International Space Station – which made global headlines when first announced last October – has not been scrapped.

"There are plans to send the torch to Baykal – the world's deepest lake. To Elbrus – Europe's highest mountain. And even into space,” a Sochi spokeswoman tells ATR.

“The full route and the full torch relay project is being worked out and further details will be revealed in due course.”

According to NASA, there are service flights to the ISS scheduled for Oct. 16, Nov. 25, Dec. 11 and Dec. 24 of 2013

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ATR

[baron-pierreIV]

Of course it will. They say that the torch will be relayed across all regions of Russia, "from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok" and that they want to "ensure that 90% of Russia's population will be within an hour of the Relay at some stage".

Are they really going to run it overland over the vast empty stretches of the steppes and Siberia in December and January? I mean even the polar and Russian bears will already be hibernating. Kinda ridiculous.

[Sir Rols]

Are they really going to run it overland over the vast empty stretches of the steppes and Siberia in December and January? I mean even the polar and Russian bears will already be hibernating. Kinda ridiculous.

I imagine it'll be a whistles top tour via the Trans-Siberian.

[world atlas]

Sochi 2014 official Olympic torch :

Sochi 2014 official Paralympic torch :

[Victor Mata]

It's like Athens torch and this logo had a baby.

[adrianme17]

looks like a hand held vacuum cleaner!

[afiqnadzir]

hate it,bulky

[baron-pierreIV]

R u sure Zaha Hadid didn't design it? It looks her handiwork.

Who copied whom?

[afiqnadzir]

[baron-pierreIV]

well, there are only so many ways to design a torch.

[Rob2012]

looks like a hand held vacuum cleaner!

Does have a certain Dyson quality to it, yes. Useful to clean up the cheese gratings from London.