FLAME LIGHTING CEREMONY A SUCCESS
The Flame Lighting Ceremony for the 2023 Special Olympics World Games took place yesterday (Wednesday 7 June) at the Zappeoin Hall in Athens.
The ceremony was rich in tradition with the highlight (obviously) being the lighting of the Final Leg Torch. The photo shown above gives a great overhead impression of the scale of the event.
The photos above and below show the 'High Priestess' - Special Olympics athlete Iliana Symeonidi - lighting the cauldron from the Final Leg Torch.
Following the Lighting Ceremony, over 20 Final Leg team members, in company with Greek Police Officers and community members left the Zappeoin Hall and ran to the Greek School of Athens where yet another Welcome Ceremony was conducted.
A truly memorable day - and one made all the better by the presence of so many of our Final Leg team.
Click on the YouTube icon to view a 7 minute video showing the ceremony - please forgive the embedded watermark in the video but it was the best video available at the time.
At the time of writing this blog, Team Captain Mark McCorkle, along with Greg Dawson, Gerri McCorkle and our Greek Final Leg member, Nick Angelakis are at Athens Airport preparing to fly to Berlin (after one last ceremony of course)
Scott
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