Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Nana Mouskouri and Gabriella Papadakis stars at a ceremony in Greece before the big departure of the flame

magictr | April 26, 2024 | Sport | No Comments

La flamme a parcouru 5000 kilomètres en Grèce, comme ici à Thessalonique, avant d'embarquer pour la France. MAXPPP – Giannis Papanikos

Lit on April 16 in Olympia, the 2024 Olympic flame ends its relay on Greek soil this Friday evening with a ceremony in Athens. She will board the Belem on Saturday to reach Marseille on May 8.

The flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be handed over this Friday evening April 26 to the French organizers during a ceremony in Athens before embarking on Saturday ;aboard the three-masted Belem to reach Marseille.

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A symbol of unity and peace, the flame, lit on April 16 in the ancient Greek site of Olympia, must be transmitted after its arrival at 6 p.m. ;nbsp;30 locals at the Panathenaic Stadium in the center of the Greek capital, according to the official program of the organizers.

Final stage at Marathon

This Friday morning, the flame made a final stop at the emblematic place of Marathon, 42 km from Athens, after having traveled 5000 km across the Greece, relayed by 600 people on islands and archaeological sites including the Rock of the Acropolis of Athens.

< /iframe> </p> <p>A duo of French champions, composed of ice dance skater Gabriella Papadakis, gold medalist at the Beijing Games in 2022, as well as former Paralympic swimmer Béatrice Hess, was chosen to carry the flame during the last meters of the relay at the Panathenaic Stadium.</p> <h2 class="txt-int">Flame given to Tony Estanguet</h2> <p>Papadakis and Hess will be accompanied by two Greek athletes, the walking specialist and double European champion Antigoni Ntrismpioti, and the captain of the Greek water polo team, Ioannis Fountoulis, silver medalist at the Tokyo Games in 2021. It is the latter who will light the cauldron and close the 11 days of relay in Greece.</p> <h2 class="txt-int">Nana Mouskouri for the anthems</h2> <p>In the historic enclosure of the Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the first Olympic Games of the modern era in 1896, the flame will be handed over to Tony Estanguet, president of the organizing committee of the Paris Olympics (Cojo) by Spyros Capralos, president of the Greek Olympic committee. Greek singer Nana Mouskouri is to perform the anthems of France and Greece.</p> <p>The French Minister of Sports Amélie Oudéa-Castéra and Pierre Rabadan, deputy at Paris City Hall, will attend this ceremony which should end around 7 p.m. and 25 p.m. local time.</p> <p><p><img decoding="async" class="aligncenter" src="/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/421e46dd79eedc5286012b89b8f15455.jpg" alt="Paris 2024 Olympic Games: Nana Mouskouri and Gabriella Papadakis stars at a ceremony in Greece before the big departure of the flame" /></p> <p> The Belem, a legendary sailboat belonging to the Caisse d'Epargne, will transport the flame from the Port of Piraeus. 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