2024-04-16 13:18:51
Since 1936, the Olympic flame lighting ceremony has symbolised peace and friendship, connecting ancient and modern Games.
In Olympia, Greece, the flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics was ignited in front of the Temple of Hera, using a parabolic dish to concentrate sunlight. The high priestess then hands the flame to a torchbearer with an olive branch, signifying peace, who carries it to the International Olympic Academy’s Coubertin Grove. There, it lights an altar beside Pierre de Coubertin’s monument. Passing to a second torchbearer representing France, the flame embarks on an 11-day relay throughout Greece.
On April 26, it arrives in Athens for the handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium. The flame spends the night at the French Embassy before sailing to Marseille aboard the Belem, arriving on May 8.
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