Olympic Flame for 2014 Winter Olympics shines onAcropolis hillBy Maria Spiliopoulou ( Xinhua) 15:14, October 05, 2013 The Olympic Flame for the 2014 Winter Olympics has shone on the Acropolis hill sinceFriday afternoon when the torch relay across Greece ended.
On Saturday, the sacred flame which was lit last Sunday at Olympia, the birthplace of theOlympic Games, will start its trip towards Russia's Sochi.
Before reaching the Acropolis in Athens, the flame crossed some 2,000 kilometers acrossGreece over the past few days, spreading the messages for friendship and peace.
The cauldron at the shadow of the Parthenon temple on the sacred rock was lit with thesymbol of Olympism by Manolis Katsiadakis, the Secretary General of the HellenicOlympic Committee which organized the six-day Greek leg of the relay.
It will be illuminating the Acropolis hill overnight, before being carried on Saturday to thePanathinaic stadium for the hand-over ceremony to the Russian organizers of theFebruary 7-28 Games.
At the venue which hosted the first modern Olympic Games, Greeks plan to bid farewell tothe Flame with a moving ceremony, sending their best wishes for good games at Sochi tothe athletes and spectators.
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