International news agency Reuters has been denied access to the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, after it released images of the Olympic flame getting lit during a rehearsal.
The Pyeongchang organizing committee protested and Reuters asked its affiliates to delete the images, saying they were “sent in error.”
The lighting ceremony is a culminating moment of the opening of the games. The hosting countries commonly keep secret how exactly the flame will be lit.
The flame is going to be lit in a cauldron-like structure held by a five-pronged foundation, symbolizing traditional Korean beauty, participation, and partnership, according to the Pyeongchang Olympics Committee.
While each host country has tried to come up with a creative idea for the flame lighting, some of the most memorable ones date back decades, like the 1992 ceremony in Barcelona, where Antonio Rebollo lit the flame with an arrow.
That may have been intentional since the arrow could have damaged mechanisms inside the cauldron or ricochet into the crowd.
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