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Of the ancient games. The gentleman speaking at the moment, the president of the Olympic Committee in greece, he is also a member of the International Committee. You can see the ancient remains of the 2600 year old temple, where this is taking place. What will happen is the flame will be lit and then it will be handed over to the paris 2024 olympic team. The relay will stretch from the acropolis to the south pacific. As you can see, there are hundreds of people at the ceremony and it is the First Time Since the covid 19 pandemic when of course there were toned down events for the tokyo olympics, that spectators are able to attend the Torch Relay Events and this flame Lighting Ceremony. We a ....
Of different locations before is then handed on to france. So, it is going to be 11 days that it will be on greek soil. 6000 torchbearers will be carrying the flame. Lets have a listen into the ceremony. She speaks greek Applause Studio so, that is the Olympic Flame, being held by the high priestess, which is the greek actress mary mina. She has been part of this ceremony which has been taking place. Now we are expecting her to hand over the flame to the first torch bearer. There we go. So, the first torchbearer who is the 2020 Olympic Rowing champion stefan snicko sauce, he now has that flame being let from the high priestess, which will signify the start of the official torch relay for paris 2024. Stefa nos stefanos ntouskos. Applause so, a single white dove let up into the sky in olympia as part of this torch relay fl ....