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Because the torch relay was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Olympics and there is no evidence that such a thing ever occurred in the ancient games. It is therefore, arguably, little more than a NAZI propaganda tool that people decided was quite nice and have subsequently shrouded in myth and bullshit to try and cover up its ideologically suspect origins.