Olympic Games. 1994. Lillehammer Winter Games... Lot 272

Olympic Games. 1994. Lillehammer Winter Games (XIIth Games). The torch. The sublime and spectacular torch of this pivotal and very successful edition allows us to reconnect with the original sacred fire. With its 5 blackened side burners, like the upper hearth. Upper part of white metal (alu), lower part of wood. With mention : Utarbeldet, av Paul J Kahra, architect. Design: André S. Marandon; og Paul, J.Kahrs. L: 1m54. Exists only in 300 copies. The flame was lit at Olympia on January 16, 1994. From there it was transported to Germany, where a cauldron was lit in honour of Carl Diem, Secretary General of the Organising Committee of the 1936 Games and initiator of the relay. Afterwards, she went to Denmark, Finland and Sweden, where she arrived in Oslo on 11 February 1994. Then from Oslo by air to Susjoen, on the outskirts of Lillehammer. Ole Gunnar Fidjestol had been selected to jump with the torch on the 120m springboard but was injured during training. Stein Brugen - who had been designated as a possible replacement - had the honour of jumping. He handed the torch to Catherine Nottingnes - partially blind - selected for the Paralympic Games, who in turn handed it to Prince Haakon who lit the cauldron.