The Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games have announced that the flame for the games will be lit on April 16, 2024 marking the countdown to the July 26-Aug. 11 event in the French capital.
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.
Paris 2024 president, Tony Estanguet said at a ceremony at the French capital’s Sorbonne university thay the torch relay will stay in metropolitan France – notably going through Montpellier, Corsica, Bordeaux, the Mont Saint Michel, Strasbourg, Reims and Lille among others before a relay in Paris on July 14-15.
In a traditional ceremony at the site of the ancient Games, an actress playing a high priestess lights the torch for every Games using a parabolic mirror before passing the flame to the first torchbearer at the edge of the ancient Olympic stadium in Olympia.
Following a brief domestic relay in Greece the flame is then handed over to the host city.
