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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] It has taken place prior to every Games since.
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]
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 torch relay (Italian: Il Viaggio della Fiamma Paralimpica) for the 2026 Winter Paralympics, jointly hosted by the Italian cities of Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo, is planned to run from 24 February to 6 March.
The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run has run a flaming torch through 160 countries since its beginning in 1987. Detroit's next on the list. International torch relay for peace to stop in Detroit ...
2026 Winter Olympics torch relay; L. List of Olympic torch designs This page was last edited on 1 August 2024, at 12:20 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Torch relay may refer to: The carrying of the Olympic Torch. Any of the Olympic torch relays; Pan American Torch, a torch relay associated with the Panamerican Games; Asian Games Torch, a torch relay associated with the Asian Games; Chess Olympiad Torch Relay, a torch relay associated with the Chess Olympiad
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