The Olympic flame had a minor eruption during the Sochi torch relay, evidenced by a video published on YouTube and confirmed by the Sochi Olympic Organizing Committee president’s Twitter account.
Footage shows the flame briefly engulfing the length of one of the torches, “spouting flames over a meter long” in Kostroma, a small city near Moscow, on Friday, according to RIA Novosti.
At least one Russian report said the person burned was a 13-year-old girl, but Sochi Olympic chief Dmitry Chernyshenko‘s Twitter account denied that.
@BBCDanielS Daniel,true info is:no blast,no injuries,no 13 year old girl-but Sochi2014 employee.Situation was under control& instantly fixed
— Dmitry Chernyshenko (@DChernyshenko) October 22, 2013
