Olympic flame lit in Greece's ancient Olympia | BBC News
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Published 2024-04-16
The ceremony takes place in Greece’s ancient Olympia, where the first Olympic Games were held in 776 BC.
The torch will first travel 3,000 miles through Greece, before crossing the Mediterranean to France in May on the three-masted ship Belem. It then will travel through France and its overseas territories before arriving in Paris for the start of the games in July.
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All Comments (21)
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Dear BBC. You need a retractable banner for your news items.
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Nice news banner blocking the actual important part of the picture.
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Gotta love that massive banner taking up almost half of the bloody screen
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One of the most important ceremonies in the history of the world. Wish we didn’t have a huge banner in the middle of it, it was still phenomenal to see though.
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As a Greek I boast with pride and get electrified by this ceremony connecting our ancient roots with the modern era. The message is simple: Let peace in the world, even for a while and let’s compete each other and may the best win!! Good luck to the hosting city Paris and to all contestants!! Thank you for the honor!! Greetings from Athens Greece 🇬🇷
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My husband is going to be one of the torch bearers, and I can not believe it!!!
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BBC's big banner was bad enough, but then you had the announcer yapping the whole time and doing a play-by-play on something that was very very obvious.
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Ancient Spirit Immortal... ...." Its great to come from Greece, the country that gave light to the world..."
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glad we got to see it all. thanks BBC for covering half of it up with a useless banner
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Does your banner really need to be THAT big?
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Epic fail bbc with the banner and you didn't include subtitles so we could understand what she was saying. You should be banned from youtube for this.
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Does no one at BBC see how annoying that red banner is? !!!
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The sun will never set on the British Broadcasting Chyron.
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Very beatiful Olympic flame ,at city Olympia - Religion Hleia. Iam proud my country Greece 🇬🇷 she is born Olympic Games.
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I love the Greek people, because no human race has contributed to the civilization of humanity than the Greek people. The Greek people didn't ask us anything for return of their immense contributions. Above all, Greek is poor country economically, but the people Greek never complained. I always would like to do something for Greek people. I will always love you until the day I die. Thank you the people of Greek for your wise contributions to humanity.
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I feel very proud of my Greek heritage as I watch this ceremony! ❤
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Would be better if there wasn't a great big red stripe across the screen
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Very beautiful lovely ceremony but banner obscured the crucial lighting of the flame
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thank you for not showing me the full show... great job !
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Beautiful Historique The red strip on screen though ... 😊
