High Priestess Lights Olympic Torch
posted Thursday, 25 March 2004
CAPTION:
High priestess Thalia Prokopiou lights a torch with the Olympic flame in
the ancient sanctuary where the Olympic Games were started in 776 BC.
Olympic organisers heaved a sigh of relief when the March 25, 2004
Olympic torch ceremony went off on cue. The Olympic Torch Relay
started its trip around the globe, to last 78 days and more than 78,000
km before the beginning of the Games in Athens on August 13. (AFP/File/Aris
Messinis)
COMMENTARY:
May Zeus Bless Us All.
ADDITIONAL INFO:
1) News Article with Torch Relay Map
2) More on the Olympic Games
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