Key Highlights
- The Italian police said that the pro-Palestinian activists were prevented from coming into contact with the opening stages of the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics torch relay. Both groups of protesters were removed before they reached the relay route in Rome, per police.
- CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS. COM The Olympic torch is lit in Greece.
- (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) A third group of about 10 people that was monitored by police waved Palestinian flags when the relay passed by the city’s biggest university, La Sapienza.
- There were also three people carrying signs in support of Venezuela near the American embassy. In October, more than two million demonstrators marched through more than 100 Italian cities to protest the war in Gaza.
- Olympic champion swimmer Gregorio Paltrinieri began the relay in the statue-lined Stadio dei Marmi and the torch was carried for 20 miles before ending the day in Piazza del Popolo. The relay will cover nearly 7,500 miles and wind its way through all 110 Italian provinces before reaching Milan’s San Siro Stadium for the opening ceremony on Feb.
