After 62
days crossing Italy and having covered 10,000
kilometres, the Olympic Flame has finally reached Turin
the home city of Fiat, which for the next two weeks,
will play host to the XX Winter Olympic Games.
Yesterday, a little before 12.21, the Holy Fire of
Olympia entered the city welcomed by 4,000 kids and
begun to meander among streets, avenues and roads of a
city whose inhabitants descended to salute and pay
homage to the principal symbol of the Games.
Thousands
of people made up the scenario for the passage of the
excited torchbearers, from ordinary to famous, from Torino and
elsewhere. There were many touching moments in a long
and beautiful day which
ended in piazza Palazzo di Città with the lighting of
the Cauldron by Livio Berruti, a monument to Italian
sportsmanship and symbol of Roma 1960, under the
satisfied gaze of the Mayor of Torino, Sergio
Chiamparino.
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Yesterday, a little before 12.21, the Holy Fire of
Olympia entered the city welcomed by 4,000 kids and
begun to meander among streets, avenues and roads of
a city whose inhabitants descended to salute and pay
homage to the principal symbol of the Games. |
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After 62 days crossing Italy and having covered
10,000 kilometres, the Olympic Flame has finally
reached Turin the home city of Fiat, which for the
next two weeks, will play host to the XX Winter
Olympic Games. |
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In a Torino ready to inaugurate the XX Olympic Winter
Games with this evening’s ceremony at the Olympic
Stadium, the torchbearers’ Relay arrived (it begun in
Rome on last December 8th) and as a consequence set
enthusiasm for the event alight. People on the street
and torchbearers alike revelled in happiness and
excitement. Among the latter, Ernesto Olivero, founder
of SERMIG, Prince Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy, escorted
by his parents Marina Doria and Vittorio Emanuele, high
jumper Sergei Bubka on the catwalk of the Olympic
Village and Juventus trainer Fabio Capello in piazza
Solferino.
Today will
be the very last day for the Olympic Torch Relay.
Another Torino catwalk before the salute to the Po river
and a “rest” before the Opening Ceremony with the long
awaited grand finale and the lighting of the Olympic
Cauldron. The day will begin early today, at 7.50, with
the departure from Superga, a place much loved in Torino
and where the plane of the Great Torino team of 1949
crashed.
Urbano Cairo, the President of the Torino Football
Club, will be the first torchbearer. Then the homage
continues to the centre of the city with many
celebrities carrying the Flame: presenter Piero
Chiambretti and Manuela Di Centa, Sergio Pininfarina and
Prince Albert of Monaco, until the hidden surprise of
the yet unidentified last torchbearer inside the
stadium.
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