| Olympic TorchCincinnati, Ohio, U. on the way to the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah. The Olympic Flame or Olympic Fire is a symbol of the Olympic Games. Commemorating the theft of fire from the Greek god Zeus by Prometheus, its origins lie in ancient Gree | Giancarlo PerisGiancarlo Peris (b. November 4, 1941), an Italian track athlete of Greek descent, was the final bearer of the Olympic torch for the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy. Peris was born in Civitavecchia, a port city on the Tyrrhenian Sea 70 kilometers north |