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  2. 2024 Summer Olympics torch relay - Wikipedia

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    The 2024 Summer Olympic torch relay ran from 16 April 2024 until 26 July 2024. [1] [2] ... Belem arriving in Marseille Route in Metropolitan France. Each day, the ...

  3. List of Olympic torch relays - Wikipedia

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    The Olympic torch relay is the ceremonial relaying of the Olympic flame from Olympia, Greece, to the site of an Olympic Games. It was introduced at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin , as a way for Adolf Hitler to highlight the Nazi claim of Aryan connections of Germany to Greece. [ 1 ]

  4. What is the Olympic torch? History, symbolism of Olympic ...

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    The 68-day Olympic torch route for the 2024 Paris Olympics began on Wednesday, May 8 in Marseille, France. Since then, the Olympic torch has crossed through 64 territories in France, finishing in ...

  5. Everything to Know About the 2024 Olympic Torch

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    The Olympic torch was designed by Mathieu Lehanneur ... considering it made its way through Champagne country in France at the start of July, ... It traversed a 5,000-kilometer route through ...

  6. 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics cauldron - Wikipedia

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    The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (born 1974), [1] [2] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. [3]

  7. A ship carrying the Olympic torch arrives in Marseille amid ...

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    A majestic three-mast ship carried the Olympic torch from Greece for the welcoming ceremony at sunset Wednesday in the city's old port. ... Paris 2024 Olympics Organizing Committee President Tony ...

  8. Watch as Paris 2024 Olympic torch design unveiled

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    Watch as the design of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Torch is unveiled on Tuesday 25 July, with one year to go until the Games. Ahead of the opening ceremony on Friday 26 July 2024, the ...

  9. 2024 Summer Paralympics torch relay - Wikipedia

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    The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (born 1974), [4] [5] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "Liberté, égalité, fraternité" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively. [6]