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Olympic flame for Paris 2024 Summer Games lit in Ancient Olympia

Xinhua | Updated: 2024-04-17 09:23

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Greek actress Mary Mina (front), in the role of High Priestess, performs during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on April 16, 2024. [Photo/Xinhhua]

The flame will be handed over to the Paris 2024 organizers on April 26 at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the venue of the first modern Olympics in 1896.

The following day, it will board Belem, a French three-masted vessel that was launched in 1896, on Piraeus port.

The Paris Olympics will be held from July 26 to August 11.

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