Dakar Youth Olympics Flame Lit in Athens
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The fourth edition of the Olympic Youth Games will take place in 50 days in Senegal, which will be the first country in the African continent to host an Olympic competition. As a prelude to this historic event, the Olympic flame arrived on the night of Thursday 10 to Friday 11 September in Dakar. What is the sporting stake of this event open to athletes aged up to 17? What can Senegal expect from it? Head of the agency Prims and initiator of the…
A light ceremony was held in Athens, Greece, at the Summer Olympic Games, 2026, to be held in Dakar, Senegal.
Dakar Youth Olympics flame lit in Athens
The flame for the Dakar Youth Olympics was lit in Athens yesterday for the first Olympic competition ever staged in Africa. International Olympic Committee President Kirsty Coventry, the organization’s first African and first female leader, said the moment carried profound personal meaning. “As an African, this moment means so much to me,” Coventry, an Olympic …
Olympic flame lit in Athens for Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games
ATHENS, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Olympic flame for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games was lit and handed over to the Dakar 2026 Organizing Committee on Thursday at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, which hosted the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. The ceremony featured cultural performances by young athletes and artists from Greece and Senegal, followed by the traditional lighting of the Olympic flame. Greek
The flame of the Olympic Youth Games (JOJ) Dakar 2026 was officially lit this Thursday at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, Greece. A symbolic ceremony marks a new stage before the historic rendezvous planned in Senegal. The event was held in the presence of several personalities of the Olympic movement, members of the Senegalese delegation and ambassadors of the JOJ Dakar 2026. Among them included the swimmer Oumy Diop, basketball player Branc…
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