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Paris 2024 Olympic flame begins journey to France
STORY: Paris 2024 Olympic flame begins journey to France
SHOOTING TIME: April 27, 2024
DATELINE: April 27, 2024
LENGTH: 0:02:01
LOCATION: Athens
CATEGORY: SPORTS
SHOTLIST:
1. Various of the Olympic flame for Paris 2024 on board the French ship Belem setting sail from Piraeus port
2. Various of Tony Estanguet arriving at Piraeus port with the Olympic flame for Paris 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English): TONY ESTANGUET, President of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
4. various of the Piraeus port
STORYLINE:
The Olympic flame for Paris 2024 began its journey from Greece's Piraeus port to France on Saturday on board the French ship Belem.
The three-masted ship set sail from Greece's largest port 90 days before the opening ceremony of the Games on July 26.
It was the first time in the history of the Games that the Olympic Flame has been transported by sea.
Belem, launched in 1896, the same year the first modern Olympics was hosted in Athens, carries the flame in a lantern.
After crossing the Mediterranean, it is scheduled to reach the port of Marseille on May 8 to kickstart the second leg of the torch relay.
The Greek leg of the torch relay started on April 16 from Ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympics 2,800 years ago, where the flame was ignited next to the stadium where ancient athletes competed.
In an official handover ceremony held on Friday at Panathenaic stadium, the venue of the 1896 Games, Tony Estanguet, president of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, received the flame.
SOUNDBITE (English): TONY ESTANGUET, President of the organizing committee of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games
"I've been waiting so long to live this moment. Officially, we received the flame yesterday in this very important and symbolic stadium in Athens. And now we get back this flame to France with this boat, Belem, also from 1896. What a fantastic coincidence."
Olympias, a reconstruction of an ancient Athenian trireme (three-rower) vessel, escorted Belem and the flame to the exit of Piraeus port, as spectators waving French flags wished good seas and best success to the Paris Games.
Xinhua News Agency correspondents reporting from Athens.
(XHTV)
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