2024 Summer Paralympics torch relay
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| Host city | Paris, France |
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| Countries visited | Great Britain, France |
| Torchbearers | 1000 |
| Start date | 24 August 2024 |
| End date | 28 August 2024 |
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The 2024 Summer Paralympics torch relay was held from 24 to 28 August 2024. The torch relay began with the lighting of the Paralympic Heritage flame in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom, on 24 August. The next day, the torch arrived in France via the Channel Tunnel, thus beginning the torch relay. The torch was split into 12 parts and visited 12 different cities across France. The French leg ended during the opening ceremony when it was used to light the Paralympic cauldron. The cauldron was erected at the Tuileries Garden's central fountain.[1][2][3] In total, the relay visited 50 cities and had 1000 torch bearers.
- 24 August: Great Britain
- The flame was lit in Stoke Mandeville, United Kingdom
- 25 August: Across France
- Channel Tunnel
- Calais, Pas-de-Calais
- Valenciennes, Nord department
- Amnéville, Moselle
- Strasbourg, European Collectivity of Alsace
- Thonon-les-Bains, Haute-Savoie
- Antibes Juan-les-Pins, Alpes-Maritimes region of France
- Montpellier
- Lourdes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées region of France
- La Roche-sur-Yon, Vendée
- Lorient, Morbihan
- Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine
- Rouen, Seine-Maritime
- 26 August: Across France
- Arras (Pas-de-Calais)
- Amiens (Somme)
- Chambly (Oise)
- Laon (Aisne)
- ChĂąlons-en-Champagne (Marne)
- Troyes (Aube)
- ChĂątillon-sur-Seine (CĂŽte dâOr)
- Lyon
- Vichy
- Limoges
- Blois (Loir-et-Cher)
- Chartres
- Deauville (Calvados)
- Louviers (Eure)
- 27 August: Across Ăle-de-France
- Montfermeil
- Clichy-sous-Bois
- Livry-Gargan
- Sevran (Seine-Saint-Denis)
- Ăpinay-sur-Seine
- Villetaneuse (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Louvres (Val dâOise)
- Trilport (Seine-et-Marne)
- Sucy-en-Brie (Val-de-Marne)
- Valenton (Val-de-Marne)
- CNSD de Fontainebleau (Seine-et-Marne)
- Garches Vaucresson (Hauts-de-Seine)
- Cergy (Val dâOise)
- Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Yvelines) and Grigny (Essonne)
- Domaine national de Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine)
- La Roche-Guyon (Val dâOise)
- Houdan (Yvelines)
- 28 August: Across Paris
- Insep
- La Cipale
- Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir
- Murs des Fédérés
- Place de la RĂ©union
- Club France
- Place des FĂȘtes
- Place Pigalle
- Grange aux Belles
- Parc Montsouris
- Manufacture Nationale des Gobelins
- ArĂšnes de LutĂšce
- Place Saint-Sulpice
- Cité des Périchaux
- Mairie du 15e arrondissement
- UNESCO rue Masseran
- Lac Inférieur du Bois de Boulogne
- Avenue de la Grande Armée
- Parc Moneceau
- Parc de Clichy Batignolles Martin Luther King
- Square LĂ©on
- Nation
- RĂ©publique
- Bastille
- HĂŽtel de Ville
- Carreau du Temple
- Place du ChĂątelet
- Place de la Concorde (Part of opening ceremony)
- Tuileries Garden's central garden (Part of opening ceremony)
Relay torch design
[edit]The French Olympic Committee commissioned Mathieu Lehanneur (fr) (born 1974),[4][5] to design the cauldron, torch, and ceremonial cauldrons along the torch relay route: Lehanneur developed a concept of having these three items symbolise France's national motto, "LibertĂ©, Ă©galitĂ©, fraternitĂ©" ("Liberty, equality, fraternity"), and gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively.[6] Lehanneur described them as "three chapters in the same story", with the cauldron representing liberty, medals, and serving as "the epilogue and the ultimate symbol of that story. Light, magical and unifying."[7] The torch relay cauldrons â 2000 of them â don a wave and ripple design that represents water texture of the River Seine that runs through Paris. They were made of XCarb by ArcelorMittal, a Paris 2024 Olympics Official Partner.[8]
See also
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Bibliography
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[edit]References
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- Paris 2024 (24 August 2024). "Paris 2024: Paralympic Flame Created at Stoke Mandeville". COJOP (Paris 2024 Comité d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques). Archived from the original on 29 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
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- Surprenant, Alexandra (29 July 2024). "Liberté, éGalité, Fraternité: French Designer Mathieu Lehanneur Designs the Cauldron and Torch at the Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved 11 September 2024. Surprenant, as of the date of this article, was a rising senior (class of 2025) at Dartmouth College where she also writes for The Dartmouth.
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