The Olympic flame is occurring a voyage. Instead of arriving on land, the symbolic flame that may ignite the 2024 Paris Games will take to sea from its birthplace in Greece, arriving on a three-masted tall ship within the French port of Marseille.
Paris organizers introduced Friday the flame’s journey to town corridor in Marseille, a former Greek colony based 2,600 years in the past. According to custom, the flame can be lit by the solar’s rays in a ceremony in historic Olympia. It will then be carried by the Olympic torch to Athens and throughout the Mediterranean to the well-known outdated port of Marseille, the place the flame might be greeted by an armada of boats alongside the coast of France, organizers mentioned.
It will go to the Marseille Marina – the place the Olympic crusing competitions are based mostly – and the Marseille Stadium, host to the Olympic soccer video games.
It will then be carried overhead in a standard torch relay, earlier than arriving in Paris to mild the cauldron and formally open the 2024 Games, which run from July 26-August 26. 11. The Paris Paralympics will run from August 28 to September. 8.
Friday’s announcement got here as the final meeting of Ukraine’s National Olympic Committee met in Kyiv to debate a attainable boycott of Paris 2024 over permitting Russian athletes to compete.
The International Olympic Committee final week sought to pave a means for athletes from Russia and Belarus, who haven’t actively supported the warfare in Ukraine, to be included within the Paris Olympics. This provoked sturdy objections from Ukraine, which needs these international locations to be banned from most worldwide sports activities.
Asked concerning the difficulty by The Associated Press, Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris 2024 organizing committee, declined to dwell on what he mentioned was a political resolution.
“My job is to make sure that all athletes who want to participate are offered the best conditions in terms of security, so that they have the chance to live their dreams,” he added.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
