(SP)GREECE-ATHENS-OLYMPIC FLAME CEREMONIES-PRESENTATION

(SP)GREECE-ATHENS-OLYMPIC FLAME CEREMONIES-PRESENTATION

(240313) -- ATHENS, March 13, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Spyros Kapralos, president of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, delivers a speech during a presentation held in Athens, Greece, on March 12, 2024. (Xinhua/Marios Lolos)

Olympic flame handover ceremony

Olympic flame handover ceremony

Yu Zaiqing (R), vice president of the organizing committee for the 2022 Beijing Winter Games, receives the torch from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Kapralos during the Olympic flame handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece, on Oct. 19, 2021.

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Carlos Nuzman (R), president of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, receives a torch with the Olympic flame from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Kapralos during the handover ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on April 27, 2016, marking 100 days to go before the start of the event in Rio de Janeiro. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Kapralos (L) holds a torch with the Olympic flame in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on April 27, 2016, during the ceremony to hand over the sacred fire to the Rio 2016 organizing committee. After the flame arrives in Brazil, some 12,000 torchbearers will participate in a relay through the country before the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Games on Aug. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Olympic torch handed to Rio 2016 organizing committee

Carlos Nuzman (R), president of the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, and Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Kapralos hold the Olympic flame in a lamp after the handover ceremony in the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on April 27, 2016. After the flame arrives in Brazil, some 12,000 torchbearers will participate in a relay through the country before the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Games on Aug. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch

Syrian refugee carries Olympic torch

Syrian refugee Ibrahim al-Hussein (2nd from L), an athlete who lost part of his leg in a bombing, receives the Olympic flame from Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Kapralos (far L) at a refugee camp in Athens on April 26, 2016. After the torch is handed over to Brazilian officials, some 12,000 torchbearers will participate in a relay through Brazil before the opening ceremony of the Rio de Janeiro Games on Aug. 5. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo