{"id":388465,"date":"2024-04-27T03:28:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388465"},"modified":"2024-04-27T05:04:31","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T05:04:31","slug":"olympic-torch-officially-handed-over-to-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=388465","title":{"rendered":"Olympic torch officially handed over to Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Paris Olympics<\/a> flame was formally handed to French organisers in the all-marble stadium where the first modern Games were held in Athens in 1896.<\/p>\n

Greek water polo player Ioannis Fountoulis, the last in a long line of torchbearers, used the flame to light a cauldron at the Panathenaic Stadium. From there, it was delivered to Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet.<\/p>\n

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A few moments of suspense followed as assistants struggled to light the lantern that will carry the flame to France.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wants to stay in Greece,\u201d Estanguet joked.<\/p>\n

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Safely in the lantern, the flame will depart for France on a 19th century sailing ship across the Mediterranean Sea, to make landfall 12 days later in the southern port city of Marseille.<\/p>\n

The flame was kindled on April 16 at Olympia in southern Greece, where the ancient games were held for more than 1,000 years from about 776 B.C. to A.D. 393.<\/p>\n

From Olympia's ancient stadium, a relay of torchbearers carried it along a 5,000-kilometre route through Greece, which included several islands and an overnight stop on the ancient Acropolis.<\/p>\n

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The Olympic flame will be housed overnight in the French Embassy, to leave Athens' port of Piraeus on the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship built in the year of the first modern games in Athens.<\/p>\n

The Belem is due in Marseille on May 8, ahead of a relay through France leading to the opening ceremony in Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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