Olympic torch lit

Olympic torch flame will be lit by a ceremony in Olympia, Greece on Thursday, marks the beginning of the 2012 London Olympics. The fire will be turned on by a "priestess" that captures the morning sun on the glass dish. The torch will be flown to England on May 18 and will be sent around the country whose capital hosts the Olympics for 70 days. Locog chairman Lord Coe, the International Olympic Committee President Jacques Rogge and the Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos Olympia will be present at the ceremony marking the start of the countdown to the 2012 London Olympics. Ceremonial lighting of the torch will be carried out in front of the ruins of the Temple of Hera on Thursday (10/5) local time. Torch - a symbol representing the sanctity of the Olympic Games means it comes from the sun - and then placed in a toilet and brought to the stadium where the ancient Olympic Games was held. Then, the fire will be carried by the swimming world champion 10km from Liverpool-born Greek Spyros Gianniotis, which will take him in the first round around Greece. He will give the torch to Alex Loukos, 19, carrying the torch from the UK first, a boxer and in 2005, is one of the delegation of school children in East London who went to Singapore in the event the final offer when London will host the Olympic Games . The torch will be taken around the country as far as 2900 km by 500 torchbearers. Ceremony amid political and economic chaos in the country where the ancient Olympic Games. Demonstration in Greece the past few months, due to the chaos of financial condition and overshadowed the threat of bankruptcy due to failure to pay debts. Upara torch ignition and trip paid for by BMW. The torch will end up in Greece around the Panathenaic Stadium, Athens, on Thursday, May 17, when the torch will be transferred to the London Olympics. The stadium hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Last torchbearers in Greece the Greek weight lifters Pyrros Dimas and Chinese gymnast Li Ning - who lit the Olympic flame ceremony in Beijing in 2008.