Italy receives Olympic flame for Milano Winter Games ahead of relay
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ATHENS, Dec 4 : Milano-Cortina Winter Games organisers received the Olympic flame on Thursday in a ceremony at Athens' Panathenaic Stadium, as they prepare for a 63-day torch relay designed to spark excitement across Italy before the Olympics in February. In a scaled-down event due to heavy rain warnings, as was the case when the flame was lit in ancient Olympia last week, Milano-Cortina Games organising chief Giovanni Malago was handed the flame inside the vast marble-clad stadium just over
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