The 1952 Oslo Winter Olympic Games witnessed the first torch relay ever. The transportation which was ignited in Olympia took place with a torch relay to berlin. In 1936, Carl Diem, Secretary-General of the Organising Committee of the Games proposed the inclusion of an Olympic torch relay in the program of the Berlin Olympics. This process of igniting the Olympic flame takes months before the games that are scheduled later to allow for the torch relay to take place and bring the Olympic flame to the host city. The only time when the Olympic flame was already burning in the stadium took place on two occasions–at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 and St Moritz in 1948. The lighting of the Olympic flame in both the summer and winter Olympics is the same.
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