you can see there is the greek actress, mary mina.nk, is going to bring the olympic flame to life with a parabolic polished mirror before handing it to the first torchbearer. there is a parabolic mirror you can see in the middle of your shot, which we think is actually going to be used to help light the flame. it will then be passed to the first torchbearer, who is an olympic rowing champion. and thenit is an olympic rowing champion. and then it will be handed on as it goes on the torch relay. the ceremony in olympia being conducted in the ruins of the 2600 year role temple. the greek president is there as is the international committee president, have we heard talking a little earlier. the torch itself harks back to the ancient olympics when a sacred flame burn throughout the games. the tradition was revived in 1936 for the berlin games. there will be an 11 day relay of the torch on greek soil. some 600 torchbearers will carry the flame over a distance of 5000 kilometres through 41 different municipalities and areas of greece before

studio: so, that is the olympic flame, being held by the high priestess, which is the greek actress mary mina. she has been part of this ceremony which has been taking place. now we are expecting her to hand over the flame to the first torch bearer. there we go. so, the first torchbearer who is the 2020 olympic rowing champion stefan snicko sauce, he now has that flame being let from the high priestess, which will signify the start of the official torch relay for paris 2024. — — stefa nos —— stefanos ntouskos. applause so, a single white dove let up into the sky in olympia as part of this torch relay flame lighting ceremony thatis torch relay flame lighting ceremony that is taking place in the ruins of the 2600 year old temple of hera. it is being passed to the first torchbearer, the 2020 olympic rowing champion stefanos ntouskos, and that will begin this whole torch relay. we expect that it will take about five minutes, where the dignitaries go from that moment where it is being handed over, before we see the departure of the first torchbearer. who will begin the relay around the country. it

and it's greek actress mary mina. are you familiar with the work of mary?u think she'd have oven gloves on? that's a metal bowl there. they get very, very hot. got some grease, but obviously with everybody around, there's lots of, you know, people in the background making background there making it a very ceremony. she very lovely ceremony. now she will it over to will then pass it over to stefanos who a he's stefanos suzuko's, who is a he's a greek champion rowen and by the way you can tell he the way he runs, you can tell he probably is a rower and not a runner. so he's going to start runnen so he's going to start it off and then they're going off around greece and then it goes around france. he goes to all the french territories and then paris on then we'll arrive in paris on july the 26th. now have a look at this. this is what happened july the 26th. now have a look at russia. is is what happened july the 26th. now have a look at russia. so s what happened july the 26th. now have a look at russia. sos whis happened july the 26th. now have a look at russ