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  2. 2024 Summer Olympics torch relay - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. List of Olympic torch relays - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay - Wikipedia

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    The 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay was run from 18 October 2021 until 4 February 2022. After it was lit in Olympia, Greece, the torch traveled to Athens in a car. [1] and was handed to Beijing on 20 October. [2] [3] The Chinese leg ended in Beijing National Stadium, at the end of the opening ceremony.

  5. BTS' Jin to Serve as Torchbearer at 2024 Paris Summer ... - AOL

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    The 2024 Olympic Torch Relay began in April in Olympia, Gr. ... Jin -- who is the oldest member of BTS -- began his service in December 2022, shortly after the K-pop group announced their hiatus ...

  6. What is the Olympic torch? History, symbolism of Olympic ...

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    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 ...

  7. BTS member Jin to participate as South Korea torchbearer in ...

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    K-pop star Jin, a member of the supergroup BTS, will participate as a torchbearer for South Korea at the Paris 2024 torch relay, according to his talent agency.

  8. List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron

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    Dilnigar Ilhamjan and Zhao Jiawen lit the cauldron at the Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022. The tradition of carrying the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the Ancient Olympic Games, to the host city of the modern Olympic Games via a torch relay was first introduced in 1936, ahead of the 1936 Summer Olympics.

  9. Category:Olympic torch relays - Wikipedia

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    2018 Winter Olympics torch relay; 2020 Summer Olympics torch relay; 2022 Winter Olympics torch relay; 2024 Summer Olympics torch relay; 2026 Winter Olympics torch ...