An official 1968 Mexico City Olympics torch bought for $41,786 at auction as a part of a sale of Olympics gear that additionally included gold medals from varied video games from 1908 to 1988.
The museum-quality torch was notable as a result of it was a so-called “Kind 6” torch, which was developed after a earlier mannequin exploded on its method to the video games.
Based on Boston-based RR Auction, which placed on the sale, when the Olympic flame was being handed, per custom, from Mariana Valls, son of the president of the Barcelona Athletics Federation, to Olympian Gregorio Rojo on a Barcelona road, “at the second of switch, Rojo’s torch exploded.” The auction home stated that, “Each males obtained minor accidents . . . and the reason for the detonation was attributed to the gas volatility and the ‘too-rapid contact of a lighted torch with an unlighted one.’ ”
That prompted the invention of a brand new, safer mannequin which finally arrived safely in Mexico City. An Oslo 1952 torch bought for $55,000.
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