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IOC Calls For Olympic Truce As Flame Lit In Ancient Olympia For Paris 2024
The Olympic Flame that will be burning for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games started its journey after being ignited at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia, on Tuesday during a traditional lighting ceremony.
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Olympic Flame For Paris 2024 To Be Lit In Ancient Olympia
The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics is to be lit Tuesday in ancient Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Games, for an epic torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to the South Pacific.
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Winter Games: Beijing Flame To Be Lit In A Vacuum In Olympia
The Olympic flame will once again be lit in an empty stadium on Monday as it starts its truncated journey to Beijing for the Winter Games in February.
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Olympic Flame Lighting In Greece Without Spectators Again
The Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Games was also lit in a ceremony in Ancient Olympia without spectators because of fears over coronavirus.
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Greece Hands Over Olympic Flame To Tokyo 2020
In the absence of spectators, Olympic gymnastics champion Lefteris Petrounias ran a lap with the flame and Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi lit a cauldron inside the all-marble Panathenaic stadium, where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896.
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Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympic Flame Lit In Greece Amid Virus Lockdown
With the coronavirus causing a tsunami effect in world sport, doubts are increasingly being raised over whether the Olympics can be held as scheduled from July 24 to August 9.
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Sports Minister Receives Special Olympic Torch
This year, India is hosting the Special Olympics International Football Championship (SOIFC) 2019 in Chennai from August 3-6.
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Rio 2016: Athlete Who Lit Olympic Flame Had Only One Hour's Notice
Vanderlei de Lima, who lit the Olympic flame in the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics, had only one hour's notice to carry the torch after Pele withdrew due to ill health.
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Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony Highlights- Olympic Flame Lit, Games Kick Off
The 2016 Rio Olympic games officially kicked off with a grand opening ceremony at the Maracana stadium. India's contingent was led by Abhinav Bindra while the rest of the 206 nations displayed their strength. The Olympics will continue till August 21. Relive all the highlights here.
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Brazil Receives Olympic Flame for 2016 Rio Games
After a six-day trek across Greece, the Olympic flame was lit last Thursday by the sun's rays at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia.
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Olympics: Flame Lit For Troubled 2016 Rio Games
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and Rio organisers sought to rally support for their cause as the flame was kindled in the 2,600 year-old Temple of Hera at Ancient Olympia.
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Queen Elizabeth II greets Olympic torch at Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II has met an old flame - the fire lit in Greece to mark the London Olympics. The monarch carried an unopened umbrella Tuesday as torchbearer Gina Macgregor held the torch. The sodden 74-year-old runner joked about being caught in downpour and told the queen that she had "looked fine this morning."
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Top 5 facts about the London 2012 Torch
The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, Greece, on Thursday, heralding the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening ceremony on July 27.
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Olympic flame lit for London Games
The Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia in Greece on Thursday, in a solemn ceremony filled with mystery and tradition that signals the final countdown to the start of this year's summer Games in London.
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IOC Calls For Olympic Truce As Flame Lit In Ancient Olympia For Paris 2024
The Olympic Flame that will be burning for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games started its journey after being ignited at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia, on Tuesday during a traditional lighting ceremony.
-
Olympic Flame For Paris 2024 To Be Lit In Ancient Olympia
The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympics is to be lit Tuesday in ancient Olympia, birthplace of the ancient Games, for an epic torch relay stretching from the Acropolis to the South Pacific.
-
Winter Games: Beijing Flame To Be Lit In A Vacuum In Olympia
The Olympic flame will once again be lit in an empty stadium on Monday as it starts its truncated journey to Beijing for the Winter Games in February.
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Olympic Flame Lighting In Greece Without Spectators Again
The Olympic flame for the 2020 Tokyo Games was also lit in a ceremony in Ancient Olympia without spectators because of fears over coronavirus.
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Greece Hands Over Olympic Flame To Tokyo 2020
In the absence of spectators, Olympic gymnastics champion Lefteris Petrounias ran a lap with the flame and Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi lit a cauldron inside the all-marble Panathenaic stadium, where the first modern Olympics were held in 1896.
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Coronavirus: Tokyo Olympic Flame Lit In Greece Amid Virus Lockdown
With the coronavirus causing a tsunami effect in world sport, doubts are increasingly being raised over whether the Olympics can be held as scheduled from July 24 to August 9.
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Sports Minister Receives Special Olympic Torch
This year, India is hosting the Special Olympics International Football Championship (SOIFC) 2019 in Chennai from August 3-6.
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Rio 2016: Athlete Who Lit Olympic Flame Had Only One Hour's Notice
Vanderlei de Lima, who lit the Olympic flame in the Opening Ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics, had only one hour's notice to carry the torch after Pele withdrew due to ill health.
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Rio Olympics 2016 Opening Ceremony Highlights- Olympic Flame Lit, Games Kick Off
The 2016 Rio Olympic games officially kicked off with a grand opening ceremony at the Maracana stadium. India's contingent was led by Abhinav Bindra while the rest of the 206 nations displayed their strength. The Olympics will continue till August 21. Relive all the highlights here.
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Brazil Receives Olympic Flame for 2016 Rio Games
After a six-day trek across Greece, the Olympic flame was lit last Thursday by the sun's rays at the birthplace of the Games in Ancient Olympia.
-
Olympics: Flame Lit For Troubled 2016 Rio Games
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach and Rio organisers sought to rally support for their cause as the flame was kindled in the 2,600 year-old Temple of Hera at Ancient Olympia.
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Queen Elizabeth II greets Olympic torch at Windsor Castle
Queen Elizabeth II has met an old flame - the fire lit in Greece to mark the London Olympics. The monarch carried an unopened umbrella Tuesday as torchbearer Gina Macgregor held the torch. The sodden 74-year-old runner joked about being caught in downpour and told the queen that she had "looked fine this morning."
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Top 5 facts about the London 2012 Torch
The flame that will burn during the London Games was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics, Greece, on Thursday, heralding the start of a torch relay that will culminate with the opening ceremony on July 27.
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Olympic flame lit for London Games
The Olympic flame was lit in Ancient Olympia in Greece on Thursday, in a solemn ceremony filled with mystery and tradition that signals the final countdown to the start of this year's summer Games in London.
