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Paris 2024 Olympic flame-lighting and handover ceremonies on April 16

On Tuesday 16 April 2024 at 10:30 CEST, the Olympic flame for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be lit in ancient Olympia.

The Olympic flame will firstly be carried through Greece and will arrive in Athens for the Handover Ceremony with a delegation from the Paris 2024 Organising Committee at the Panathenaic Stadium on Friday 26 April at 17:30 CEST.

Following the handover, the flame will spend the night at the French Embassy in Athens, before boarding the three-masted “Belem” ship the following day to head for Marseille, France, where it will arrive on 8 May.

Olympic Channel Services (OCS) will produce live coverage of the Flame-lighting and Handover Ceremonies.

The live broadcast feeds (with graphics in English and the Olympic rings at the top left) for both events will be offered free of charge to the media and distributed.

All usage by non-media rights-holders and bona fide media organisations will be subject to the News Access Rules Applicable to the Olympic Torch Relay of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The IOC will also provide video news releases via the IOC Newsroom platform.

Photos from both ceremonies will be available on IOC Media Flickr.

During the relay, 10,000 torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame through more than 400 towns and cities in 65 territories, including in six overseas regions, before the Opening Ceremony on 26 July.

Credit: International Olympic Committee 

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