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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 16-04-20
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[01] Dress rehearsal of the Olympic Flame-lighting ceremony held in
Ancient Olympia
[01] Dress rehearsal of the Olympic Flame-lighting ceremony held in
Ancient Olympia
A dress rehearsal of the ceremony for the lighting of the Olympic Flame
was held without a hitch in Ancient Olympic on Wednesday, before an
audience of roughly 3,000 people.
The weather was ideal and preparations began early in the morning,
with the arrival of the first visitors coming to the Ancient Olympia
archaeological site.
They included several coaches of schoolchildren that had come to watch
the dress rehearsal, which was led by actress Katerina Lehou in the role
of High Priestess.
The official torch-lighting ceremony, held every two years at the ancient
site where the Olympic Games began nearly 3,000 years earlier, will take
place on Thursday, when the Rio 2016 Olympic Torch Relay begins.
Police had taken heightened security measures for the dress rehearsal,
both inside and outside Ancient Olympia, even though Wednesday's dress
rehearsal was open to the public free of charge.
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