70 Years Since the First Sub Four-Minute Mile
The Museum of World Athletics (MOWA) are to install a pop-up exhibition at the Iffley Road athletics track in Oxford this weekend to commemorate 70 years since Sir Roger Bannister became the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. Bannister’s feat in 1954 was […]
Passage to Marseille
The Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 has sailed from Piraeus on the sailing ship Belem. It was escorted to the harbour wall by the trireme Olympia crewed by the Hellenic Navy. Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet carried the Flame aboard in a safety lamp where he was greeted by the Belem’s Captain Aymeric Gibet and 16 […]
The Olympic Flame is now in French hands
Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has pledged “to organise spectacular Games, but also Games that are more responsible, and that will contribute to a more inclusive society,” as he formally received the Olympic Flame after a memorable Ceremony […]
A Flame on the Ocean Wave
The historic three masted sailing ship Belem is ready and waiting at the port of Piraeus to convey the Olympic Flame from here for Marseille on a voyage Paris 2024 organisers have predicted will be reminiscent of a “true Homeric epic.” The ship was first commissioned […]
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