Olympic Flame Sails into Marseille
The Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 has been lit on the quayside in Marseille by local rapper “JuL” amid a fusillade of fireworks to set the seal on a day of celebration. In an unusual break with tradition, French President Emanuel Macron joined a crowd estimated at 150,000 to witness its arrival, […]
Largest Refugee Olympic Team For Paris 2024
The Olympic Refugee team (EOR) for Paris 2024 is set to be the largest since the introduction of the EOR at the 2016 Rio Olympics. It will include 36 members competing in 12 sports. The team has been chosen with the approval of the International Olympic Committee […]
The Flame is coming to Marseille
It is always a special moment when the Olympic Flame arrives in the host nation of the Games. A day of celebration has been planned to mark its arrival in Marseille on Wednesday (May 8). It has been carried from the great Athenian port of Piraeus by the three-master sailing ship […]
Reflections of the Flame
The Olympic Flame is now somewhere on the high seas as it continues its journey to Marseille. Its dramatic departure aboard the Belem prompted a dramatic light show in celebration in Marseille where the Flame is scheduled to make landfall. The Flame burst into life on the day before the official […]
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 […]
Pass the Flame, Unite the World
The Olympic Flame is to be formally handed over to Paris at an evening Ceremony in Athens after its ten-day journey across Greece. The appearance of Nana Mouskouri to sing “La Marseillaise” and the Greek National Anthem is keenly awaited even though Mouskouri is to celebrate […]
Echoes of the Torch Relay
The Olympic Torch Relay provided another echo of the 2004 Games as it arrived in Alexandroupolis when Javelin thrower Kostas Gatsioudis lit a temporary Cauldron. Twenty years ago, he was the first runner to set in motion the Athens 2004 Torch Relay at Ancient Olympia. […]
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