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Philip Barker

@pbarkersport

Freelance Broadcaster, sports historian & author from launch of Trans World Sport most recently freelance columnist with https://t.co/Ou80pBrsuL

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youtube.com/shorts/ZXSEb8e… the Trireme which accompanied the Belem out of harbour, how about racing in these? World Rowing 😃

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Latest edition of the
ISOH Olympic History
Journal is now on its way electronically to members and subscribers a bumper issue before
@paris2024
packed with history. Printed version will take a little longer. Nearly 30 years of Olympic history accessible to all at isoh.org

Latest edition of the @ISOHOlympic Journal is now on its way electronically to members and subscribers a bumper issue before @paris2024 packed with history. Printed version will take a little longer. Nearly 30 years of Olympic history accessible to all at isoh.org
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This morning in Piraeus, final preparations are made for the departure of Paris 2024 Olympic Flame on the Belem which will have an escort

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in a few hours Trois-mâts Belem will receive Paris 2024 stirring memories for some of a similar voyage made for the 1960 Rome Olympics in the Amerigo Vespucci youtube.com/watch?v=OBMify…

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youtube.com/watch?v=lVfKOz… a demonstration of Breaking at Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony in Athens tonight

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Nana Mouskouri sang both national anthems in Athens before the Flame was handed over, La Marseillaise was always likely to be moment of great emotion and so it proved youtube.com/watch?v=5sSGhu…

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magnificent handover Ceremony on a sunlit spring evening in Paris that would have graced any Summer night, the Flame is now in hands of Paris 2024

magnificent handover Ceremony on a sunlit spring evening in Paris that would have graced any Summer night, the Flame is now in hands of @Paris2024
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at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, a few hours before the Flame Handover Ceremony for Paris 2024 the weather a contrast to that which greeted London's Handover 12 years ago

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tonight the Marseillaise and the Greek national anthem are set to be sung here by Nana Mouskouri at the official Handover of the Paris 2024 Olympic Flame.

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after tonight's Handover Ceremony, Paris 2024 Flame will head to Piraeus tomorrow to board Trois-mâts Belem for passage to Marseille. Read here when the Flame was previously on the high seas isoh.org/a-flame-on-the…

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Greek water polo skipper Ioannis Fountoulis, captain of the team which won silver #Tokyo2020 is to light the final cauldron of the Ηellenic Olympic Committee Torch Relay before official handover Paris 2024 tonight, OAKA 2004 Olympic pool had plenty of young players practising this week

Greek water polo skipper Ioannis Fountoulis, captain of the team which won silver @Tokyo2020 is to light the final cauldron of the @HellenicOlympic Torch Relay before official handover @Paris2024 tonight, OAKA 2004 Olympic pool had plenty of young players practising this week
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As today, 20 years ago the Flame crossed the Antirrio Bridge for the first time, there is an appropriate statue close by.

As today, 20 years ago the Flame crossed the Antirrio Bridge for the first time, there is an appropriate statue close by.
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