the choice of Marseille seemed apt. The Summer Olympic Games in Paris are expected to draw millions of spectators. Olympic Flame Arrives in Marseille: The flame will be carried on a 79-day journey ...
The Olympic flame has arrived on French soil at the southern port city of Marseille amid tight security ... "It marks the end of preparations - the Games arrive in the life of the French people.
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 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 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 Olympic flame reached Marseille, just outside the Old Port, amid tight security on Wednesday, 79 days before the Paris 2024 ...
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 ...
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 ...
As the ship entered Marseille's Old ... said after watching the flame arrive that he hoped the Olympics would bring France ...