In a ceremony held amid the ruins of ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Games 2,800 years ago, the flame was kindled by performers dressed as priestesses, though this year weather conditions meant the torch was not ignited as usual by a parabolic mirror - which focuses the sun's rays - but from a flame lit during a rehearsal.
Emerging from the ruins, where she had invoked the Greek god Apollo for light and peace "for all peoples of the world", the actor playing the role of high priestess then handed the flame to the first of hundreds of torchbearers who will carry it on an 11-day journey around Greece.
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