NEW DELHI: Organisers introduced on Friday that the Paris 2024 Olympic Video games flame can be ignited on April 16, signaling the graduation of the countdown to the occasion scheduled from July 26 to August 11 within the French capital.
The symbolic flame can be kindled on the historic web site of historic Olympia in Greece, the place the Video games originated, and can stay in Greece till its departure for France from Athens on April 27.
The flame will attain Marseille on Could eight as a part of its journey in direction of the host metropolis, Paris.
The torch relay will keep in metropolitan France – notably going by means of Montpellier, Corsica, Bordeaux and the Mont Saint Michel – till June 7, when it’s going to go away the port metropolis of Brest by boat for a relay in France’s abroad territory. It is going to return to mainland France by boat on June 18.
The boat can be skippered by 2017 Vendee Globe winner Armel Le Cleac’h.
“It may be spectacular and can showcase all our territories,” Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet stated at a ceremony on the French capital’s Sorbonne college.
The flame will then journey by means of Strasbourg, Reims and Lille amongst others earlier than a relay in Paris on July 14-15 – which can undergo the Pantheon and the Nationwide Meeting and Senate (the decrease and higher homes of parliament) – with some 400 cities being visited in whole.
The relays, which can function round 10,000 torch bearers, can be captained by Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure and Florent Manaudou and para-athlete Dimitri Pavade.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo stated the flame would go to standard neighbourhoods and {that a} ‘vigil’ can be organised on the Resort de Ville (Metropolis Corridor) on July 14.
In a conventional ceremony on the web site of the traditional Video games, an actress taking part in a excessive priestess lights the torch for each Video games — summer time or winter — utilizing a parabolic mirror earlier than passing the flame to the primary torchbearer on the fringe of the traditional Olympic stadium in Olympia.
Following a quick home relay in Greece the flame is then handed over to the host metropolis.
Paris organisers have stated they’ll use a three-masted ship the ‘Belem’ to take it the port metropolis of Marseille, the place the crusing competitions of the Olympics will happen.
Normally the flame, held in a security lantern, is flown by aircraft to the Olympic Video games host metropolis.
Marseille, based by the Greek settlers of Phocaea round 600 BC, is the start line of the French leg of the relay.
Paris 2024 organisers have been planning to put in the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a supply with direct information of the matter advised Reuters final month.
Friday’s ceremony offered organisers with a second of respite after their headquarters had been raided by police as a part of a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption on Tuesday.
(With Reuters Inputs)
The symbolic flame can be kindled on the historic web site of historic Olympia in Greece, the place the Video games originated, and can stay in Greece till its departure for France from Athens on April 27.
The flame will attain Marseille on Could eight as a part of its journey in direction of the host metropolis, Paris.
The torch relay will keep in metropolitan France – notably going by means of Montpellier, Corsica, Bordeaux and the Mont Saint Michel – till June 7, when it’s going to go away the port metropolis of Brest by boat for a relay in France’s abroad territory. It is going to return to mainland France by boat on June 18.
The boat can be skippered by 2017 Vendee Globe winner Armel Le Cleac’h.
“It may be spectacular and can showcase all our territories,” Paris 2024 president Tony Estanguet stated at a ceremony on the French capital’s Sorbonne college.
The flame will then journey by means of Strasbourg, Reims and Lille amongst others earlier than a relay in Paris on July 14-15 – which can undergo the Pantheon and the Nationwide Meeting and Senate (the decrease and higher homes of parliament) – with some 400 cities being visited in whole.
The relays, which can function round 10,000 torch bearers, can be captained by Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure and Florent Manaudou and para-athlete Dimitri Pavade.
Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo stated the flame would go to standard neighbourhoods and {that a} ‘vigil’ can be organised on the Resort de Ville (Metropolis Corridor) on July 14.
In a conventional ceremony on the web site of the traditional Video games, an actress taking part in a excessive priestess lights the torch for each Video games — summer time or winter — utilizing a parabolic mirror earlier than passing the flame to the primary torchbearer on the fringe of the traditional Olympic stadium in Olympia.
Following a quick home relay in Greece the flame is then handed over to the host metropolis.
Paris organisers have stated they’ll use a three-masted ship the ‘Belem’ to take it the port metropolis of Marseille, the place the crusing competitions of the Olympics will happen.
Normally the flame, held in a security lantern, is flown by aircraft to the Olympic Video games host metropolis.
Marseille, based by the Greek settlers of Phocaea round 600 BC, is the start line of the French leg of the relay.
Paris 2024 organisers have been planning to put in the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a supply with direct information of the matter advised Reuters final month.
Friday’s ceremony offered organisers with a second of respite after their headquarters had been raided by police as a part of a preliminary investigation into alleged corruption on Tuesday.
(With Reuters Inputs)
