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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. 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron - Wikipedia

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   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]

5. Snoop Dogg to blaze it up in Paris as a torchbearer for 2024 ...

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   The rapper will carry the torch as part of the Games' opening ceremony Friday, a Paris-adjacent mayor announces. Snoop Dogg to blaze it up in Paris as a torchbearer for 2024 Olympics: 'Gots to do ...

6. 2024 Paris Olympics: Most memorable moments from the wet ...

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   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 ...

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

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   K-pop superstar and BTS bandmember Jin will soon be taking part in the grand opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympics.The 32-year-old singer has been tapped to take part in the Paris 2024 ...

8. List of torchbearers who have lit the Olympic cauldron

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   The first well-known major athlete to light the cauldron was nine-time Olympic champion Paavo Nurmi at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Other famous final torch bearers include 1960 decathlon gold medallist Rafer Johnson, who became the first person of African descent to light the cauldron at the 1984 Summer Olympics, [1] French football star Michel Platini (), heavyweight boxing champion ...

9. Olympics Opening Ceremony 2024: Time, how to watch and ...

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   What time is the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony? The opening ceremony begins July 26 at 7:30 p.m. local time in Paris, which is 12:30 p.m. CT. How to watch the 2024 Olympics Opening Ceremony