Putin lights Olympic flame for Sochi on Red Square
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Russian President Vladimir Putin ceremoniously lit the Olympic flame on Red Square Sunday, but the four-month relay to Sochi for the Winter Games got off to a rocky start when one of the torches went out.
The Olympic flame, which was lit a week ago in Greece and flown to Moscow earlier Sunday, kept burning in a cauldron on Red Square. The glitch occurred when a torch bearer ran through a passageway leading into the Kremlin, which apparently created a wind tunnel, extinguishing the flame. A man standing along the route used a lighter and the flame leaped back to life. (AP)
