7 Oct 2013

Winter Games Olympic flame arrives in Moscow

12:09 pm on 7 October 2013

The Olympic flame for the 2014 Winter Games in the Russian city, Sochi, has arrived in Moscow.

The flame will now begin its travels through all 83 Russian regions, before arriving at the games venue in February.

Its arrival in the Russian capital was not without its problems.

Russian president Vladimir Putin lit the Olympic flame on Red Square on Sunday but one of the torches extinguished when a torch bearer ran through a long passageway in the Kremlin and the wind tunnel put the flame out.

Someone reportedly in the passageway re-lit the flame with their lighter.