Organisers have worked alongside the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs to deliver the project, that is expected to see around 40 athletes from across the world take part tomorrow.

This includes Ecuadorian Olympic champion weightlifter Neisi Dajomes and track and field athlete Maria Mutola of Mozambique, who won gold and bronze in the women's 800 metres at Sydney 2000 and Atlanta 1996 respectively.

In 44 overseas countries and territories, the embassies and the overseas departments, regions and communities (DROM-COM) - land that is under French sovereignty outside of the mainland - labelled “Terre de Jeux 2024” will arrange a sporting event to stage.

In Ghana, the French Ambassador and Ghanaian Olympic featherweight bronze medallist Samuel Takyi are scheduled to meet in the boxing ring.

Libya is expected to hold a running race consisting of four people per team while Lake Paranoá in Brasilia is anticipated to hold a kayak race.

The relay is due to start in Fiji in the Pacific where it will then move into Oceania, Asia, Europe, Africa and America, before eventually ending in French Polynesia back in the Pacific where the surfing events are expected to take place.

Every event must start at 9am local time and last for one hour with social media network Twitter being used as a key tool of organising the handover.

More than 8,000 people, which includes those with disabilities, are due to participate in the global relay that stretches to more than 22,000 kilometres.

"Sport gives us the opportunity to work together, to share things, to push through our own limits and in so doing, become better, together," Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, said.

"On April 6, every embassy and every territory involved in the relay around the world will help to create a moment of conviviality, brotherhood and unity, built around sport.

"Through this ground-breaking event and thanks to the commitment of our embassies, we are driving Paris 2024’s message of engagement further, broadcasting it out across the entire world.

"That is the purpose of the label 'Terre de Jeux 2024' - to bring people and territories together around the unique impetus of the Games and sport in general."