The futuristic Olympic Park provided a potent symbolofthe country's economic resurgence and the first Games on German soil since 1936 provided an opportunity, finally, to lay to exorcize the specter of Berlin's macabre carnival of Nazi triumphalism.
The homemade cone bore the banner "End Poverty" and represented "hope for all those for whom the Olympics has become a symbolof repression, eviction, greed and arrogance, " according to organizers The Counter Olympic Network.
To ensure that the integrity ofthesymbol is maintained and to maximize its effectiveness, it is vital that Marketing Partners use theOlympic rings only as directed and approved.
One flame whose symbolism has transcended from modern to ancient times is theOlympic torch, which has become a symbol for solidarity among nations, the perseverance needed of victory, and the struggle for perfection.