During the 1980 Olympics in Moscow was a live broadcast of the Olympic fire. I saw on TV: the runner carried a torch, and a special car was driving nearby. Suddenly the fire in the torch was extinguished. The runner just drove him into the open window of the special car and pulled him out burning again. Olympic fire in Greece. Teleportation was there.

As far as I remember, a special escort car in 1980 carried a special burner, the fire of which was lit from the Olympic. This burner burned continuously and was needed precisely in the case of a force majeure with a torch of a runner.