The Paris 2024 Olympic Games flame will be lit on April 16, marking the countdown to the July 26 to Aug 11 event in the French capital, organisers said on Friday (June 23).
The flame will be lit at Greece's ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Games, and will remain in the country until its departure to France from Athens on April 27.The torch relay will stay in metropolitan France – notably going through Montpellier, Corsica, Bordeaux and the Mont Saint Michel – until June 7, when it will leave the port city of Brest by boat for a relay in France's overseas territory. It will return to mainland France by boat on June 18.
The relays, which will feature around 10,000 torch bearers, will be captained by Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure and Florent Manaudou and para-athlete Dimitri Pavade.
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