The 2024 Olympics are officially unveiled on Tuesday. The Olympic flame is lit at the ancient site of Olympia, Greece.
In front of the ruins of the 2,600-year-old ancient temple of Hera, from the first Olympic Games of Antiquity, the “high priestess”, dressed in a costume inspired by antiquity, must extinguish the flame that will arrive in Marseille on May 8.
After the flame with reserve flame remained after Monday’s dressing practice due to the weather, Greek actress Mary Mina passed the torch to the first relay, Greece’s Stefanos Ntouskos, the Olympic rowing champion in Tokyo.
Maria Mina then proceeded to release a dove in this rite at Olympia.
Laure Manaudou, gold medallist in Athens in 2004 at the Olympia in Greece, then became the first French torchbearer in the torch relay.
In Greece, 600 torchbearers will pass by the flame as it travels 5,000 kilometers, seven Greek islands, ten archaeological sites and the Rock of the Acropolis, where it will spend an evening by the Parthenon. In the Greek port of Piraeus, the flame will embark on April 26 aboard the three-masted ship Belem before arriving in Marseille on May 8.
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