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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 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.
PARIS — There has never been an Olympic Games that put its host city on display quite like this. In an unprecedented Opening Ceremony, the 2024 Summer Games kicked off with a wave of pageantry ...
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 ]
Then, once the Olympic torch arrives at the host country, the 68-day long Olympic torch relay begins. For the 2024 Paris Olympics, the torch relay began in Marseille, roughly eight hours south of ...
Here’s a look at where the torch goes before reaching Paris: MONT-SAINT-MICHEL The torch is due to reach the famed and visually stunning site of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy on May 31.
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, ... it was first used in modern form at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. From that time forward, the object has been universally ...