How do you understand ‘all around the middle’?

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Torch Will Bring its Light to the 2024 Olympics

Olympic Games organizers in France presented the 2024 Olympic torch that will light the Summer Games in the country a year from now. In the Olympic torch tradition, many people carry the torch in turn from Greece to the current location of the Games. After it has traveled thousands of kilometers, the torch will light the Olympic cauldron at the Opening Ceremony of the next Olympic Games.
French designer Mathieu Lehanneur created the torch, which is 70 centimeters long and made of lightweight steel. Lehanneur said its shape is inspired by the famous Seine river, which flows through Paris. He said the torch is equal from top to bottom and all around the middle, which stands for equality between athletes. The twisting shape of the torch represents peace.

How do you understand ‘all around the middle’?

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[Rover_KE]

What is the source of the quoted text?

(If the source is given in the link composed of Chinese characters it's of no use to most English-speakers.)

 

[Piscean]

The link eventually take us to this: https://www.51voa.com/VOA_Special_English/torch-will-bring-its-light-to-the--olympics-91256.html

 

[teechar]

I take it he means the torch is of the same thickness over its length (top, middle, bottom). It does not taper towards the bottom, as some other traditional torches do.

 

[Rover_KE]

Here's an image of the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic torch: [link]

Discuss.

 

[teechar]

I must say that it doesn't look very "equal", does it?

 

[SoothingDave]

Looks like a lava lamp.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think the phrase 'equal from top to bottom and all around the middle' is very illustrative at all. I had to look at the picture to know what he meant.

What he apparently meant is that it's symmetrical both along its length and across its width.

 

[Skrej]

Here's a link to a closeup view. This article does reference symmetry.