2023-11-22 21:50:05
Less than six months before the Paris 2024 Games, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (COH) gave details on the Olympic flame ceremony this Wednesday in Athens. Olympic rowing champion in Tokyo, the Greek Stefanos Ntouskos, 26, will light the torch on April 16 at the ancient site of ancient Olympia.
Around 600 torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame in Greece, covering more than 5,000 kilometers across the country, from Meteora to Kastellorizo, from Delphi to Santorini, before reaching the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on April 26, 2024.
The last Greek torchbearers will be the players of the national water polo team, Olympic vice-champions in Tokyo in 2021.
The flame will then leave Piraeus to reach Marseille aboard the famous three-masted historic monument, the Belem. She will arrive in France on May 8, a little more than two and a half months before the start of the Paris Olympics on July 26.
“Greece and France are united by strong ties of cooperation and solidarity. Paris will host a superb Olympic Games and show the greatness of the French people,” said Spyros Capralos, President of the COH.
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