Paris 2024 has announced that world-renowned designer Mathieu Lehanneur will create the Olympic and Paralympic Torches and Cauldrons.

The Olympic flame for Paris 2024 will be transported from Greece in a three-masted tall ship which will arrive in France at the Old Port of Marseille, venue for next year’s sailing competition, French organisers announced today.

Millau, Montpellier and Sète in southern France have all agreed to host the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay.

Officials in Calais have confirmed that the Olympic Flame will pass through the French city in the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Three human rights protesters who unveiled anti-Beijing 2022 banners at the Acropolis in Athens on the eve of last year's Olympic Flame being lit have been acquitted by a Greek court.

The Olympic Flame is set to pass through Val-d'Oise, a department in the Île-de-France region, after a signing ceremony involving Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet.

In the last few days, it has come as a welcome respite from grim tidings in world news to hear of the evident joy of 2012 women's basketball silver medallist Émilie Gomis on her visit to Ancient Olympia in Greece.

Paris 2024 President Tony Estanguet has signed an agreement with Côte-d’Or Regional Council President Francois Sauvadet which will take the Flame to the region in north-eastern France for a day in 2024.

Officials from the Paris 2024 Organising Committee have been given "sacred soil" from the ancient site in Olympia to help them promote the traditional Torch Relay.

Cooperative banks Banques Populaires and Caisses d'Epargne have been named as official sponsors of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Torch Relays.

There comes a point in the life of every host city when the idea that they are about to host the Olympic Games becomes frighteningly real. 

Mayenne in north-west France has become the first department to formalise that it plans to receive the Olympic Torch Relay for Paris 2024.

Actor Jackie Chan has carried the Beijing 2022 Olympic Torch on the Great Wall of China.

The Olympic Flame has been passed on to Beijing 2022 in a low-key handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens. 

The Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame is now heading to Athens, but the Lighting Ceremony here was interrupted by protests over China's human rights record.