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The torch relay plans to showcase many of the World Heritage Sites in the country and will involve 10,001 torchbearers. [1] Applications for torchbearers are scheduled to open in February 2025. [2] On 29 November 2024, Italian comedy trio Gli Autogol were announced as official narrators for the torch relay. [4]
As everyone rings in the new year and cracks open those fresh 2025 calendars, Netflix is adding a whole new roster of TV shows, movies, specials, and live events to the streaming service in January.
The 2024 Summer Olympic torch relay ran from 16 April 2024 until 26 July 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] After it was lit in Olympia, Greece , the torch then travelled through Greece, arriving at Athens on 26 April.
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] It has taken place prior to every Games since.
After an unforgettable 16 days of thrilling competition, the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, a historic event in its own right, will feature the extinguishing of the Olympic Flame and ...
Though the Olympic torch is inspired by the Games' ancient Greece prototype, it was first used in modern form at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympics. From that time forward, the object has been ...
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The Olympic Torch is lit and the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics is 100 days away. The countdown clock in Paris hit the 100-day mark Tuesday. A relay of torchbearers will carry the flame ...