Now he will travel through France until arriving in Paris in two and a half months for the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games.
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After 12 days of crossing from Greece, the Olympic flame arrived in Marseille aboard the Belem, a 19th century sailing ship, on this Wednesday afternoon. Now he will travel through France to Paris, where the Olympic Games this summer.
The olympic flame passed from the hands of the French swimmer Florent Manaudou to the athlete Nantenin Keïta and then to the rapper Julwhich lit the Olympic cauldron in said city.
The ship entered the port of marseille With honors. She did it while ‘La Marseillaise’, the French national anthem, was playing and escorted by a air force flyover.
The Olympic torch relay began this Thursday morning in Marseille, in the emblematic basilica of Notre Dame de la Garde. A total of 10,000 ‘scouts’ (as the Paris 2024 Organizing Committee calls them) will carry the flame.
Trip will last two and a half months and will carry the flame to the Tuileries Gardens in Paris for the lighting of the cauldron at the end of the opening ceremony of the Games, on July 26.
