Olympic games - Austria / II. Republic of Austria 1972 - 2 Shilling

As is known, the Olympic Games already existed in antiquity in the temple district of Olympia, until they were banned in 394 AD as pagan festivals. In 1894, the Frenchman Pierre de Coubertin wanted to make the Greek educational ideal known worldwide and founded the International Olympic Committee. Two years later, the first modern Olympic Games took place in Athens. The antiquity competitions were held in honor of gods, and altars were provided on altars, which a runner set on fire after a solemn ceremony. The organizers of the 1936 Olympic Games saw this torch relay as a link between the old and new Olympic Games. From this Olympiad, the holy flame was lit by a burning glass in front of the Hera Temple and brought to the respective venues by numerous runners - often around half the world. The runner and track record was achieved in 1964 at the Tokyo Olympics: 5386 runners had to bring the torch over 7816 kilometers to their destination! In order to bring the sacred flame from Greece to Munich in 1972, it took 600 Austrian runners who brought the flame 581 kilometers from the Hungarian to the German border.