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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. The Paris Olympics’ first battleground: air conditioning

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    All involved in the planning of Paris 2024, ... So they fought, and won, a battle with Paris organizers over the availability of air conditioning at the 2024 Olympics. Thousands of AC units are ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Transportation during the 2024 Summer Olympics and ...

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    A stated goal of Paris 2024 was to halve the carbon footprint of the Olympic and Paralympic Games compared with London 2012 and Rio 2016. The average carbon footprint for these Games was 3.5 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent from both direct and indirect effects, such as spectator travel. Transport was an important component of this.

  6. 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]

  7. Paris 2024 to have fewer Olympic torches on ‘sustainability ...

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    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

  8. Athletics at the 2024 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia

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    The route, specially designed for the Paris 2024 Games and approved by World Athletics, was unique, demanding, and technical. Paris 2024 unveiled the routes for the Olympic marathon and the two races – a 42.195 km course and a 10 km course – open to the general public as part of the mass event running. [5]

  9. Paris 2024: The Olympic flame is ... not really a flame

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    “A premium Paris 2024 partner helped us with the cauldron in order to avoid having to use carbon fuels in order to light up the torch and the cauldron for the duration of the Games," said Tony ...