The Olympic flame of the modern-day Olympic Games is lit by reflection of sunlight in a parabolic mirror at the restored OLYMPIA stadium and then transported by a torch to the place where the games are held. When the modern Olympics came to Athens in 2004, the men's and women's shot put competition was held at the  restored stadium.

       HERMES was looked upon as the patron of good luck and fortune, the patron of merchants and thieves. Winged sandals helped him steal the cows belonging to his half-brother Apollo, while winged thoughts saved him from Apollo's rage, for he gave as a trespass-offering his invention, the lyre. He was also the god of roads and a god of fertility, aspects that were included in the hermeia