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Olympic flame for Athens Games
(Agencies)
Updated: 2004-03-26 07:55
Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou,
dressed in a white robe as the high-priestess, lights a torch using the
sun rays in a parabolic mirror during the traditional Olympic lighting
ceremony in ancient Olympia March 25, 2004. 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. The torch will
arrive in China for relay in June. [Reuters]
Greek actresses, dressed in white
robes as the priestesses, carry the Olympic Flame after it was lit by the
sun's rays in a parabolic mirror during the traditional lighting ceremony
in ancient Olympia March 25, 2004. [Reuters]
Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou (R), dressed in
a white robe as the high-priestess, gives the Olympic Flame to a priestes
lit using the sun's rays in a parabolic mirror during the traditional
Olympic lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia March 25, 2004.
[Reuters]
Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou,
dressed in a white robe as the high-priestess, prays to God Apollo to send
the sun rays to light the Olympic Flame in the ruins of the ancient Temple
of Hera during the traditional Olympic lighting ceremony in ancient
Olympia March 25, 2004. [Reuters]
Greek actresses,
dressed in white robes as priestesses, dance in the ancient Olympia
Stadium during the traditional Olympic lighting ceremony in ancient
Olympia March 25, 2004.[Reuters]
Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou holds the
sacred Olympic flame on March 25, 2004. [Xinhua]
Greek actress Thalia Prokopiou lights up a torch
to start the global relay on March 25, 2004.
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