How long does it take the Greek priestess to collect fire?
10: 45, guests stop entering.
1 1, the flame collection ceremony begins.
Play the Olympic anthem and raise the Olympic flag; Play the Chinese national anthem and raise the national flag of China; Play the Greek national anthem and raise the Greek flag.
Mayor city of olympia, IOC President Rogge, Greek Olympic Committee President Kryaku and BOCOG President Liu Qi delivered speeches respectively.
Kerekou presented a cupping to Liu Qi, chairman of BOCOG.
1 1: 25, the high priest collects kindling and gives it to the first torchbearer, Greek taekwondo athlete Nick Lazes.
Nick Lazes lit the torch at 1 1: 55, and the torch relay officially started.
(The above time is local time in Greece)
According to Xinhua News Agency, on March 23rd, at the invitation of the Greek Olympic Committee, Liu Qi, member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, secretary of the CPC Beijing Municipal Committee and chairman of the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games, led a Beijing delegation to Greece to attend the lighting ceremony of the 29th Summer Olympic Games.
Determination of the time for the torch ignition ceremony of Beijing Olympic Games
The Greek Olympic Committee decided on the 23rd that the lighting ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games will be held at the ancient Olympia site in Greece on March 24th 1 1 local time (March 24th 17: 00 Beijing time).
BOCOG confirmed that the opening ceremony will be broadcast live by China People's Broadcasting Station, CCTV Channel 1, News Channel, Olympic Channel, China Radio International and Beijing TV Satellite TV Channel.
Greece is ready.
Greek Culture Minister Liapis said at the site of Olympia on the morning of 23rd that the lighting ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games will be held here on March 24th, and Greece is ready for the ceremony.
He said that the ceremony of lighting the flame is the pride of the Greek people and the contribution of the Greek people to all mankind.
Liapis said that on 24th, Greek President papoulias, Prime Minister karamanlis and important members of the government will come to Olympia to attend the lighting ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games to express their friendly feelings towards the government and people of China.
He said that the relevant Greek authorities have made full arrangements for the security of the ceremony, and there will never be any problems.
The last rehearsal of the ignition ceremony was successfully held.
The last rehearsal of the torch lighting ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games was successfully held at the ancient Olympia site in Greece on the 23rd. As the first torchbearer, Nick Lazes, a famous Greek taekwondo athlete, also made his official appearance.
Greek officials such as Greek Culture Minister Liapis, Greek Olympic Committee President Kryaku and city of olympia Mayor Ai Dong Nice watched the rehearsal. Before the rehearsal ceremony, Liapis had a cordial conversation with 22 priestesses and said hello to them.
The local weather is not particularly ideal, mainly cloudy, but the visibility is not high and the sunshine is not particularly strong. The rehearsal ceremony started at about 1 1: 00 local time and lasted about 1 hour.
The first exercise is the collection of the flame, which is also the highlight of this ceremony.
In the quiet sound of drum music, 20 priestesses wearing white traditional ancient Greek dresses took the lead in walking slowly into the temple of Hera in two rows, walked to the altar in front of the temple and stood in a circle along the altar. Then, maria nafpliotou, the high priest, slowly walked into the temple with a fire bowl in her hand and walked to the center of the temple altar. After reciting the ode to the sun god in a clear and passionate voice, she lit a fire with a torch in her hand.
Considering the weather conditions, the rehearsal did not carry out the drill of the priestess holding the torch to focus on the fire in the concave mirror. In the two rehearsals on the 20th and 22nd, Nafpli lit a fire. The fire on the 22nd is currently stored in the Olympic Academy as a spare fire officially collected on the 24th.
The biggest suspense of Olympic flame collection: sunshine
The ceremony of collecting the Beijing Olympic flame was held at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece on the 24th. However, whether there is enough sunshine to ensure the success of fire mining on the 24th has become the most discussed topic in Olympia these two days.
As the collection of the flame is lit by the sunlight collected by concave mirror, it needs enough sunlight on the collection day to successfully collect it. The flame collection ceremony was originally scheduled for noon on 24th 12. However, the local weather in Olympia has been somewhat repeated these two days, and the official fire gathering time has been decided to be held in advance 1 hour. From 19 to 22, the Greek priestesses who were in charge of collecting the sacred flame rehearsed and tried to collect the fire every day, but only on the 20th and 22nd, the fire was successfully collected twice, and no fire was collected on the 9th and 20th of 65438+38+0 due to insufficient sunshine.
However, because the successful fire test has been reserved as a backup fire, even if it is not successfully collected on the day of the ceremony, the backup fire can be used, so the flame will be lit anyway.
Papak Risto, director of the Information Department of the Greek Olympic Committee, is worried about more than cloudy days. He told reporters before: "The flame was collected at noon. According to the weather forecast, there was heavy rain after noon that day. In that case, it would be a pity. Because the whole ceremony will be forced to move into the indoor venue for the second set of spare programs, the venue is too small to squeeze a few people and can't go in and watch. " He also said, "Now we need to pray."
Because there are many sunny days in Olympia in spring, the whole fire ceremony only needs enough sunshine at the moment of taking the fire, so there are only two unsuccessful cases of taking the fire in the history of Olympic flame collection, and both of them were caught up by Australians, namely 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games and 2000 Sydney Olympic Games. Both times, because of the bad weather, they could only be replaced by the fire of the rehearsal ceremony the day before.
The torch relay is the Olympic Games for ordinary people.
The global torch relay of Beijing Olympic Games has the largest number of participants in previous years. The Olympic torch relay has a good symbolic significance, because it can make people truly integrate into the Olympic Games. From a competitive point of view, the main body of the Olympic Games is still high-level athletes, followed by their coaches, team doctors and team officials. For ordinary people, there are two ways to get in touch with the Olympic Games in person, volunteer service and torch relay.
Because the number of volunteers is limited, several people can be around the stadium. And countless people can stand on both sides of the torch relay road. It has the longest duration and the largest number of participants, which undoubtedly has the widest influence. Even those who have never known the Olympic Games can learn what the Olympic Games are and feel its atmosphere by watching the torch relay.
Through the Olympic torch relay, people from different countries and nationalities get to know each other, enhance friendship and finally achieve the goal of human peace.
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