Eight months before the start of the Olympic Games in Paris, Stephanos Ntouskos, the Tokyo 2020 rowing champion, was named the first bearer of the Olympic flame.

On April 16, the Greek Stefanos Ntouskos will light the Olympic flame

On April 16, the Olympic flame will be lit at the Olympia Stadium, where the Games were held in ancient times, and a long relay will begin that will take it to Paris, where it will light the Olympic Games from July 26 to August 11. .

On Wednesday, the Greek Olympic Committee announced that Stefanos Ntouskos will be Greece’s first torch bearer. The 26-year-old became the Olympic rowing champion at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.

The flame will travel for 11 days in Greece and seven days on some Greek islands. The last bearer of the flame on Greek soil will be Ioannis Fontoulis (35 years old), the silver medalist of the 2021 Olympic Games in water polo, according to News.ro.

The fire will then travel to France aboard the late 19th century three-masted ship Bélem. She will arrive in Marseille, the city that will host the sailing events of the Games, from where the French Olympic torch relay will depart.