High Priestess Theodora Siarkou here on Sunday lighted the Olympic torch with a backup flame in an official lighting ceremony for the Turin 2006 Winter Olympic Games.

Because of the overnight heavy rain and heavy clouds hovering the Ancient Olympia -- the birthplace of the Olympics, the backup flame, which were kindled with a concave steel mirror in a rehearsal on Saturday, were used to light the Olympic Flame.

Bad weather affected the ceremony for the Sydney 2000 Summer Games, and the past two Winter Olympics -- at Salt Lake City in 2002, and Nagano in 1998.

重点词汇

Priestess n. 女祭司

torch n. 火炬，火把

backup a. 后备的，备份的

rehearsal n. 预演，排演

concave a. 凹入的，凹面的

Nagano n. （日本城市）长野