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The torch carrying the Olympic flame to the 2002 Winter Games in Salt Lake City, Utah is crowned with borosilicate glass from Schott, the same type of  glass that you can specify for your  chemical waste pipe!
The Flame from Within
Approximately 3.5 billion people around the world  watch live as the Olympic torch is carried into the Rice-Eccles Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games to  held in Salt Lake City in the United States. When the caldron is lit and the games were opened on February 8, 2002, the flame will have quite a journey behind it. It will have been flown in a safety lantern on a charter flight from Athens to Atlanta, the site of the 1996 Games. From there it will have been carried by 11,500 torchbearers – including U.S. cyclist and three-time Olympian Lance Armstrong – on a 13,500 mile relay passing through 48 states. Countless spectators will have watched as the flame wound its way to the Games, few realizing the engineering and design behind it.
The Olympic Look
The torch design was conceived by Axium, a Los Angeles design firm which created the look of the entire Winter 2002 Games. The body was conceived to resemble ice in color and texture, making the torch a fiery icicle in motion. For the first time, the flame was not to burn on top of the torch, but to emerge from within, through a glass crown, echoing the theme of the Games: “Light the Fire Within.”