Complex sentence: It was ignited via remote control by a technician, Reyes Abades, who did all the rehearsals and the ceremony itself, as he explained in an interview with his local newspaper'globalhenares.com', "... he created the mechanism for lighting the Olympic flame".
Split into simpler sentences: It was ignited via remote control by a technician, Reyes Abades, who did all the rehearsals and the ceremony itself. Abades explained in an interview with his local newspaper'globalhenares.com', "... he created the mechanism for lighting the Olympic flame".