Video: "Greek Priestesses" lit the Olympic flame for the XXX Summer Olympic Games in London
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The Olympic Games are one of the most spectacular events on a global scale, which links the entire history of civilization from antiquity to the present into a single chain. The tradition of lighting the Olympic flame originated in ancient Greece, and its "rebirth" took place during the 1928 Olympics, which took place in the Netherlands. This year's anniversary XXX Summer Olympics will pass in London, Olympic torch relay already started from Olympia!
The ceremony took place in the historic homeland of the Olympic Games. Here, among the ruins of the ancient Greek temple of the goddess Hera, with the help of a parabolic mirror, it was possible to light the Olympic flame! In the theatrical action, which preceded the lighting of the fire, 11 girls took part, who performed the ritual dance of the priestesses. The High Priestess - whose role went to the famous Greek actress Ino Menegaki - was honored to read a prayer to the Greek gods and ask them to send down fire to host the Games!
The Olympic torch, designed by British studio Barber Osgerby, flashed from sunlight reflected in a mirror. It was handed over to the first torchbearer, swimmer Spyros Yianniotis, who will run at the initial stage of the Olympic torch relay.
During the relay, the fire will first be delivered to Athens, from where it will be handed over to the organizers of the London Games. For 10 weeks, the torch will be in the hands of eight thousand torchbearers, who will cover the path of 12, 8 thousand km. (it will be carried through the UK and Ireland)!
It is noteworthy that this is not the first time that the Olympic flame will visit England. London hosted the 1948 Olympics (the first Olympic Games after World War II), then the first torchbearer was a corporal of the Greek army, who, before the start of the relay, took off his military uniform and weapons as a sign of a sacred truce.
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