The Olympic flame for the 2010 Winter Games in Vancouver has been lit.
The sun shone just enough over the fallen temples at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics on Thursday for a Greek actress in a pagan priestess' white gown and sandals to focus its rays on a silver torch using a concave mirror.
The flame will burn at the Vancouver Games in February, following a torch relay across Canada and a shorter run in Greece.
Bad weather disrupted the ceremony for the 2000 Sydney Summer Games, and the past three Winter Olympics - in Turin in 2006, Salt Lake City in 2002 and Nagano in 1998.
One-Minute World News 
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