Tag: flame
Olympic Games-2024: the Belem sailboat sets sail for France with the Olympic flame on board
The three-masted Belem cast off on Saturday in the port of Piraeus, near Athens, and began sailing towards France with the flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on board.…
“An immense privilege”: 16 young French people accompany the Olympic flame aboard the Belem
Martin Lange 1:59 p.m., April 27, 2024modified to 2:16 p.m., April 27, 2024 The Olympic flame, handed over to France, left Greece this Saturday morning aboard the Belem. In 12…
The first bearer of the Olympic flame upon its arrival in Marseille will be Florent Manaudou, announces Tony Estanguet
Martin Lange, edited by Philippe Folgado // Photo credit: Attila KISBENEDEK / AFP 06:23, April 27, 2024 The Olympic flame is in the hands of the French delegation from Paris…
the Olympic flame handed over by Greece to the French organizers, Florent Manaudou first bearer
Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos and Tony Estanguet, President of the 2024 Olympic Organizing Committee, hold the Olympic flame on April 26, 2024 at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens,…
in Athens, Tony Estanguet receives the Olympic flame for France
Tony Estanguet, the president of Paris 2024, in Athens, April 26, 2024. ARIS MESSINIS / AFP It was there where it all began, in 1896, in the historic grounds of…
Olympic Games-2024: the Olympic flame handed over to the French before leaving Greece
The flame of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games will be handed over this Friday to the French organizers during a ceremony in Athens, before boarding the three-masted Belem on Saturday…
a unique security system and a “demonstration zone” for the arrival of the flame in Marseille
Benoît Payan (left), mayor of Marseille, and Gérald Darmanin, minister of the interior, in Marseille, April 26, 2024. CHRISTOPHE SIMON / AFP Gérald Darmanin affirms it. The arrival of the…
2024 Olympic bonuses: the Alliance police union threatens to disrupt the journey of the Olympic flame
Europe 1 with AFP / Photo credit: HERVE CHATEL / HANS LUCAS / HANS LUCAS VIA AFP 6:47 p.m., April 23, 2024 If the bonuses and financial compensation promised in…
for the passage of the Olympic flame, the Meuse and Verdun no longer want to be confined to the past
The Olympic flame will pass through the Douaumont ossuary (Meuse), photographed here in March 2023. JULIE WELCOME The year 2024 will mark 80 years since the landing in Normandy and…
Journey of the Olympic flame: threats of attack, militant actions… How the Ministry of the Interior is preparing
INTERVIEW Does the Olympic flame represent a danger for France? Even before the Olympic Games and its opening ceremony on July 26, this is the question that the police are…
for Fatima Charkaoui, the Olympic flame will burn all summer
Fatima Charkaoui at the Roger-Fréville athletic complex, in Pierrefitte-sur-Seine (Seine-Saint-Denis), in March 2024. DR When Fatima Charkaoui received a phone call in January asking her to carry the Olympic flame…
Olympic Games-2024: Dimensions, history, route… What you need to know about the Olympic flame
Almost 100 days before the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the lighting of the flame for the Games began at 10:30 a.m. this Tuesday, April 16 in the sanctuary of Olympia,…