The Paris Olympics 2024 Flame lighting ceremony has been began on Tuesday, sixteenth April on the traditional website of Olympia. Round 600 torchbearers will now carry the Olympic flame on a 5,000 kilometre odyssey round Greece, earlier than reaching the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the positioning of the primary fashionable Olympics in 1896, on the twenty sixth April.

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Greek Olympic rowing champion Stefanos Ntouskos is the primary torchbearer within the relay that can journey from Olympia to Paris. The flame will then sail from Paris to Marseille on the 120-year-old, three-masted Belem, which is a listed historic vessel that started life as a cargo ship transporting sugar from the West Indies. After that, it is going to arrive in France on Might 8, simply two and a half months earlier than the beginning of the Paris Olympics 2024, the place the subsequent leg of the relay will start. 

The primary Olympic torch relay happened in 1936 when 3,000 bearers carried it from Olympia to Berlin with the costumes and torch designs capturing the minds of creatives. In Historical Olympia, dwelling of the traditional Olympics for greater than 1,000 years, a flame was thought to burn perpetually on a shrine, symbolizing the everlasting spirit of the Video games.

On the historic temple of Hera, 30 historic priestesses (actresses dressed as historic priestesses) carried out a sequence of rituals calling upon the god of sunshine, Apollo to ignite the Olympic flame utilizing the solar’s rays and a parabolic mirror. The hearth, which burns all through the length of the Olympic Video games, symbolizes purity and represents the values ​​of the Olympics amongst nations. 

The symbolic lights will go by greater than 30 cities and cities throughout the nation earlier than touchdown on Athens roughly ten days later. There will probably be handed over to the host metropolis Paris in a ceremony on the Panathenaic Stadium after which depart for France on 27 April 2024. 

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The flame may even mild the Paralympic Video games, which occur August 28 to September 8, the place 1,000 torchbearers will assist relay the torch throughout 50 French cities and cities.