A very little over 100 times remaining just before the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics. Just before that the Olympic flame, which will burn up all through the Paris Game titles, will be lit in the ancient Olympia on Tuesday for a torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to French Polynesia.
For the very first time considering that the Covid-19 pandemic, which did not let spectators to attend the programme ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, spectators will be capable to go to the occasion.
600 dignitaries, such as Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou and Worldwide Olympic Committee President Thomas Bach, will be current at this week’s ceremony.
Subsequent the rituals, actresses in the part of historical priestesses coaxed the Olympic flame into existence with the assist of a parabolic polished mirror in Olympia, southwestern Greece, where by the Video games were born in 776 BC.
As per tradition, the ceremony will be executed at the ruins of the 2,600-calendar year-outdated Temple of Hera and sets off the Olympic torch relay that marks the countdown for just about every Game titles.
American Joyce DiDonato will supply the Olympic anthem.
The torch harks back again to the historical Olympics when a sacred flame burned in the course of the Video games. The custom was revived in 1936 for the Berlin Game titles.
The initially relay runner will be Greece’s 2020 Olympics rowing winner Stefanos Douskos.