Images: Lighting ceremony of Olympic flame

[caption id=“attachment_305254” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“The London 2012 torch is lit at Ancient Olympia during the final dress rehearsal on 9 May. Jamie McDonald/Getty Images”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_305325” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Actress Ino Menegaki dressed as High Priestess lights the Olympic flame at the Temple of Hera during the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia. Jamie McDonald/Getty Images”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_305359” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Actress Ino Menegaki dressed as High Priestess lights the Olympic flame at the Temple of Hera during the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia. Jamie McDonald/Getty Images”] [/caption] [caption id=“attachment_305327” align=“alignnone” width=“940” caption=“Actress Ino Menegaki dressed as High Priestess lights the Olympic flame at the Temple of Hera during the Lighting Ceremony of the Olympic Flame at Ancient Olympia. Jamie McDonald/Getty Images”][/caption] [caption id=“attachment_305330” align=“alignleft” width=“940” caption=“Ino Menegaki passes on the Olympic flame to Spyros Gianniotis, a 32-year-old Liverpool-born swimmer, who won a silver medal for Greece in the 5-kilometer open water event four years ago in Beijing, during the lighting of the flame ceremony. Kostas Tsironis/AP”] [/caption]

Images: Lighting ceremony of Olympic flame

The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the Ancient Olympics on Thursday. Images from the ceremony.

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