FILE PHOTO: Olympic rings to have fun the IOC official announcement that Paris gained the 2024 Olympic bid are seen in entrance of the Eiffel Tower on the Trocadero sq. in Paris, France, September 14, 2017. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann/File Picture
PARIS – Paris 2024 organisers have been planning to put in the Olympic flame on the Eiffel Tower, a supply with direct data of the matter advised Reuters on Monday.
The supply added that the flame wouldn’t be put on the prime of the Eiffel Tower, for technical causes, and it was not clear whether or not it will keep on the monument all through the Video games however the mixture of two such iconic photos can be a dramatic backdrop to the July 26-Aug. 11 occasion.
“It’s been a piece in progress for the final two years now,” the supply mentioned.
The flame can’t be on the prime of the tower due to the antennas already put in there, they added.
“The venue for the lighting of the flame on the Opening Day of the Olympic Video games has not but been determined,” a Paris 2024 spokesperson advised Reuters.
They didn’t deny engaged on putting in the flame on the Eiffel Tower and wouldn’t disclose when any announcement can be made.
The flame will arrive within the port metropolis of Marseille on Could 8 by boat – the three masted tall ship “Belem” – after a 10-day journey throughout the Mediterranean from Greece.
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