Each time the Olympic games occur, a special ceremony takes place a few months before the official start of the games. The official Olympic torch is lit, and then transported from the ancient Olympic facilities in Olympia Greece, to the lucky host city of that year's event. The original Olympic flame that is generated in Greece is maintained throughout its worldwide journey through two practices that are all too common for IT professionals. Resiliency and Redundancy. Read about how these two processes are utilized to maintain the lineage of the Olympic flame.