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2. Watch as Paris 2024 Olympic torch design unveiled

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   Watch as the design of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Torch is unveiled on Tuesday 25 July, with one year to go until the Games. Ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday 26 July 2024, the ...

3. Olympics live updates: Opening ceremonies begin in Paris amid ...

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   The 2024 Paris Olympic Games have officially commenced, and they’ve kicked off with what many are calling the most unique - and bizarre - opening ceremony. Faceless torch bearers and Marie ...

4. Countdown clock for Paris Olympics hits 100-day mark on same ...

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   The Olympic Torch is lit and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is 100 days away. The countdown clock in Paris hit the 100-day mark Tuesday. A relay of torchbearers will carry the flame ...

5. Olympic flame - Wikipedia

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   At the end of the first Olympic torch relay, the Olympic flame arrives in Berlin, 1936. The Olympic torch relay, which transports the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece to the various designated sites of the Games, had no ancient precedent and was introduced by Carl Diem at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. [16]

6. 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.

7. 2024 Summer Olympics torch relay - Wikipedia

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   Each day, the relay covered a different part of France. Several French cities and towns received the flame, as well as one or two iconic places, such as historical places or natural landmarks. One or two team relays also took place: 24 participants, led by a captain and representing an Olympic or Paralympic French sports federation, carried the ...

8. Watch live as Paris holds parade to welcome Olympic torch ...

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   Watch live as Paris holds a special event along the banks of the Seine River, which will serve as the venue for the Olympic Games Opening Ceremony. On Tuesday 25 July, athletes and other ...

9. 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]