The Secret Behind the 1992 Olympic Flame 🔥🔥🔥

Added: 2026-05-25

[00:00:00]In 1992, the Olympic flame was lit in the most epic way possible. I think many of you have seen it, but did you know that the arrow never actually hit the cauldron and didn't light the Olympic flame at all? It was the deception of the century. A forced deception. Spain was hosting the Olympics and they took an enormous risk by using a flaming arrow to light the Olympic flame.

[00:00:23]For this symbolic act, they [music] chose Antonio Rebollo, a Spanish Paralympic archer. From the center of the stadium, [music] Rebollo draws his bow, takes aim, and fires. And wow, the flame ignites. But in reality, the arrow never hit the cauldron. It flew right over it and completely out of the stadium. And no, this was not a miss by Antonio. Everything was perfectly planned for safety reasons. Gas was released at the exact moment the arrow flew over the cauldron, so that from the right [music] angle, everything looked convincing. The arrow was deliberately fired along that exact trajectory and it flew far beyond the boundaries of the stadium.