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The 2024 Summer Olympic torch relay ran from 16 April 2024 until 26 July 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After it was lit in Olympia, Greece , the torch then travelled through Greece, arriving at Athens on 26 April.
The torch relay: It started with a confused torch bearer entering an empty Stade de France, where a conventional Opening Ceremony would be. But because Paris staged this one along the Seine, it ...
The torch was split into 12 parts and visited 12 different cities across France. The French leg ended during the opening ceremony when it was used to light the Paralympic cauldron. The cauldron was erected at the Tuileries Garden's central fountain. [1] [2] [3] In total, the relay visited 50 cities and had 1000 torch bearers.
The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games. It was introduced at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as a way for Adolf Hitler to highlight the Nazi claim of Aryan connections of Germany to Greece. [1] It has taken place prior to every Games since.
Here's a full breakdown of the route of the Olympic torch for the 2024 Paris Olympics: May 8: Marseille. May 9: Marseille. May 10: Var. May 11: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. May 12: Bouches-du-Rhône.
Naomi Osaka lit the Olympic beacon with the final torch to open the Tokyo Games Paris 2024 to have fewer Olympic torches on ‘sustainability’ grounds after 10,000 used in Tokyo Skip to main content
The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (born 1974), [1] [2] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. [3]
These are the three themes of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, which Lehanneur was featuring-slash-teasing on his Instagram as early as last July. Per the Paris 2024 site, equality is reflected in ...