The Olympic flame has arrived on French soil at the southern port city of Marseille amid tight security, 79 days before the opening ceremony of the Paris Games. After a 12-day trip from Greece on ...
MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) -The Olympic flame landed on French soil amid tight security on Wednesday, firing the starting gun on a summer extravaganza of sport that President Emmanuel Macron ...
The Olympic flame arrives in France on Wednesday where a ... The transfer of the flame onshore in the southern port of Marseille will mark the start of a 12,000-kilometre (7,500-mile) torch ...
The flame for the 2024 Paris Olympics arrived on French soil on Wednesday at the port of Marseille on board a 19th century sailing ship. Olympic gold medal-winning swimmer Florent Manaudou carried ...
The Belem, a three-masted sailing ship carrying the Olympic flame, arrives in the southern French city of Marseille on May 8, 2024. (Photo by Julien Mattia/Xinhua) The parade is accompanied by ...
The ship was awaited by 1,024 boats. Fourteen young people aged 16 to 24 had been selected to join the professional crew of the Belem and accompany the Olympic Flame on its Mediterranean crossing.
PARIS, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The three-masted ship Belem carrying the Olympic flame arrived in the southern French city of Marseille in the late morning of Wednesday, and kicked off a six-hour coastal ...
A band of musicians, wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Marseille, proud to welcome the Olympics Flame," entertained tourists and residents as well as workers who were setting up the Olympic stage ...
A band of musicians, wearing T-shirts with the slogan “Marseille, proud to welcome the Olympics Flame,” entertained tourists and residents as well as workers who were setting up the Olympic ...