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The torch relay for the Paris 2024 Olympics has began within the birthplace of the Video games in Greece.
The Paris 2024 Olympic torch was lit in a standard ceremony in historic Olympia, marking the ultimate stage of seven years of preparations for the Video games, which start on July 26.
Greek actress Mary Mina, taking part in the position of Excessive Priestess, lit the torch for the beginning of the relay in Greece and France on Tuesday, utilizing a backup flame as an alternative of a parabolic mirror as a result of overcast skies.
It would culminate with the lighting of the Olympic flame within the French capital on the opening ceremony. Paris will host the Summer time Olympics for the third time after 1900 and 1924.
“Within the troublesome occasions we live by, wars and conflicts are on the rise, individuals are fed up with hatred, aggression and unfavorable information,” stated Thomas, president of the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC). Bach stated in his speech.
“We lengthy for one thing that brings us collectively, one thing that unites, one thing that provides us hope. The Olympic flame that we’re lighting immediately is an emblem of this hope.”
On April 26, after an 11-day relay throughout Greece, the flame might be formally handed over to Paris Video games organizers on the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the location of the primary fashionable Video games in 1896.
It would then depart for France the subsequent day aboard the three-masted ship Belém, arriving in Marseille on Might 8, with 150,000 individuals anticipated to attend the ceremony within the southern metropolis's Outdated Port.
Marseille, based by Greek settlers from Phocaea round 600 BC, will host crusing competitions.
The French torch relay will final 68 days and culminate in Paris with the lighting of the Olympic flame on July 26.