# @cgtneurope on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DRh1NU1jCZi
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/37398332-cgtneurope-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/4771a29fa6.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-11-26T17:49:17.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CGTN Europe (@cgtneurope) — https://gondola.cc/cgtneurope

## Caption

The torch for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics has been lit in an indoor and scaled-down ceremony in ancient Olympia due to weather warnings.⁣
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The traditional ceremony, normally held at the stadium where the Games were born in ancient Greece and using actresses as priestesses who light the flame from the sun's rays using a parabolic mirror, was scrapped ahead of time due to heavy rain warnings.⁣
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The torch will pass through 60 Italian cities and 300 towns with a total of 10,001 torchbearers, before reaching Cortina D’Ampezzo on January 26. CGTN’s Evangelo Sipsas was there.⁣
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#Greece #Olympics #olympicflame

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