(ATR) The Sochi Olympic torch relay continues Tuesday in Ryazan.
The city islocated on the Oka River and is approximately 196 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
Elite Russian chess player Dmitry Andreikin is among the list of torchbearers carrying the flame through the city. Ryazan is around 224 square kilometers.Russia's first Nobel Prize-winner, physiologist Ivan Pavlov,was born in Ryazan.
The torch relay passed through the cities of Yasnaya Polyana and Novomoskovskin the Tula region on Monday.
On Wednesday, the flame will head east and arrive in Murom;a harbor on the Oka river andone of the oldest cities in Russia.Day 10 of the torch relay will also include the city of Vladimir.
Sochi 2014 announced today that the Olympic flame will travel to the North Pole on October 30.
TheRosatom State Corporation fleet base in Murmansk will use an icebreaker to carry the torchmore than 5,000 kilometers. Over the course of 15 days, the Flame will travel from Murmansk to the North Pole and back again.The Olympic Flame will reportedly be lit in the heart of the Arctic Circle.
Overall, 14,000 runners will carry the torch across a total distance of 62,000 kilometers.The flame will make its way through 83 towns and cities before heading back into European Russia, and ultimately the Black Sea resort of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony on February 7.
Written byNicole Bennett.
For general comments or questions,click here.
20 Years at #1: Your best source of news about the Olympics isAroundTheRings.com, for subscribers only.
Recent Articles
Sinner-Alcaraz, the duel that came to succeed the three phenomenons
Beyond the final result, Roland Garros left the feeling that the Italian and the Spaniard will shape the great duel that came to help us through the duel for the end of the Federer-Nadal-Djokovic era.
Table tennis: Brazil’s Bruna Costa Alexandre will be Olympic and Paralympic in Paris 2024
She is the third in her sport and the seventh athlete to achieve it in the same edition; in Santiago 2023 she was the first athlete with disabilities to compete at the Pan American level and won a medal.
Rugby 7s: the best player of 2023 would only play the medal match in Paris
Argentinian Rodrigo Isgró received a five-game suspension for an indiscipline in the circuit’s decisive clash that would exclude him until the final or the bronze match; the Federation will seek to make the appeal successful.
Rhonex Kipruto, owner of the world record for the 10000 meters on the road, was suspended for six years
The Kenyan received the maximum sanction for irregularities in his biological passport and the Court considered that he was part of a system of “deliberate and sophisticated doping” to improve his performance. He will lose his record and the bronze medal at the Doha World Cup.
Katie Ledecky spoke about doping Chinese swimmers: “It’s difficult to go to Paris knowing that we’re going to compete with some of these athletes”
The American, a seven-time Olympic champion, referred to the case of the 23 positive controls before the Tokyo Games that were announced a few weeks ago and shook the swimming world. “I think our faith in some of the systems is at an all-time low,” he said.
