Between Olympia, the cradle of the ancient Olympic Games, and ending in Athens, whose Panathenaic Stadium was the site of the first modern Games in 1896, this year's torch relay will make a long tour of places characteristic of Franco-Greek relations, points out the French magazine Le Point, in an article entitled “Greece passes the torch to France”. In particular, as mentioned by Eric Monen, historian of the Olympic Games and ambassador for Paris 2024, together with the Greek archaeologist George Tyrologos, they had chosen 32 places, of which the Greek Olympic Committee retained 12 places. Among the locations chosen is Pylos, where the naval battle of Navarino took place in 1827, which pitted the Ottoman and the Franco-Russian-British fleet against each other, the magazine reports, recalling that French engineers had rebuilt the city of Pylos that had been destroyed by the bombings and built the first road in independent Greece, up to Methoni and Koroni. Then the flame will switch […]
Source: News Beast
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