Seventh in a series
Staff writer
NAGANO -- At the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics, when the torch relay was first adopted, some sensed an ominous political meaning to the event, seeing the flame as more representative of a firebrand than a symbol of cross-cultural unity.
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