The sacred flame for them Paris 2024 Olympics was turned on at Olympiad, birthplace of the ancient Games, and the relay has been launched which in three months will carry the torch to the French capital for the opening ceremony on 26 July. Due to the cloudy weather, the lighting was not carried out thanks to the sun’s rays, as ancient tradition dictates, but took place with a reserve flame lit during Monday’s dress rehearsal in the 2,600-year-old temple of Hera ago, near the stadium where the Olympics were born in 776 BC.
The path of the Olympic flame
The former swimmer Laure Manadou she was chosen as the first French torchbearer to begin the five thousand kilometer journey across Greece over eleven days. You will travel from the island of Corfu, in the Ionian Sea, to Santorini, in the Cyclades, via Kastellorizo, in the south-east of the country. He will also spend a night near the Parthenon, on the rock of the Acropolis. On April 26, the flame will be delivered to the French organizers in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, where the first Olympic Games of the modern era took place in 1896. She will then embark for France aboard the three-masted Belem and arrive in Marseille on 8 May.
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The meaning of the Olympic flame
Manaudou, winner of her first Olympic title in 2004 at the Athens Games, will succeed Stefanos Ntouskos, Olympic rowing champion, gold in Tokyo 2020, and will thus become the first French torchbearer to carry the flame, as announced by the Greek Olympic Committee. The lighting of the Olympic flame is a symbolic moment that has been a tradition of the Olympic Games since 1936. The flame not only represents the positive values that man has always associated with the symbolism of fire, such as peace and friendship, but it acts also as a link between the ancient and modern Games.
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– 2024-04-25 12:52:47
