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Each day, the relay covered a different part of France. Several French cities and towns received the flame, as well as one or two iconic places, such as historical places or natural landmarks. One or two team relays also took place: 24 participants, led by a captain and representing an Olympic or Paralympic French sports federation, carried the ...
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 ]
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 ...
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]
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 ...
The 1992 Winter Olympics torch relay took part as part of the build-up to the 1992 Winter Olympics hosted in Albertville, France. The route covered around 5,536 kilometres (3,440 mi) and involved 5,500. Michel Platini and François-Cyrille Grange lit the cauldron at the opening ceremony.
Simplified route of the 2012 Summer Olympics torch relay, by CMG Lee. Note: The curve does not follow the actual route but merely indicates the progress of the torch through the cities and towns labelled as follows (marker background colour indicates the day of week: Red=Monday, Orange=Tuesday, Yellow=Wednesday, Green=Thursday, Blue=Friday ...
The route of the 2002 Winter Olympics torch relay. The starting and ending points are marked with large red dots, while major stops along the route are marked with smaller orange dots. The blue arrows indicate the direction of travel along the route, which is marked by the black lines. Date: 6 January 2011, 23:15 (UTC) Source