Next month, Marseille is set to witness a monumental event as the Olympic torch arrives from Greece. On Friday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced that approximately 6,000 police officers will be deployed to ensure the utmost security during this historic occasion.

The identities of the last two French torchbearers on Greek soil have been revealed ahead of the handover of the Olympic flame at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens.

The Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay will feature some 30 UNESCO World Heritage sites with the opening ceremony on 26 July - for the time in the history of the modern Olympics history - taking place within a UNESCO site.

On Sunday 14 April, the Slovak Olympic and Sports Committee launched 'Our Colours, Our Hearts' ('Slovenský olympijský a športový výbor'), a series of activities to celebrate the upcoming Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Hundreds of events will take place across Slovakia over the next three months to promote Olympic values and fair play.

The sacred flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games was lit on Tuesday in Olympia, Greece, the birthplace of the ancient Games, in a ceremony inspired by antiquity and marked by messages of hope amid multiple global crises.

The details of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay, which will take place in Greece from 16 to 26 April next year, were presented by the Hellenic Olympic Committee at an event held at its headquarters. 

The sailing ship which will carry the Olympic Flame to France next May has been undergoing mooring tests in the port of Marseille.

The Flame for the 2024 Youth Olympic Winter Games in Gangwon has been lit in Athens and is now on its way to South Korea to begin what organisers have called a "journey of solidarity."

Italian organisers of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo has launched a search to find producers for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and Torch Relays in three years time.

When details of the Olympic Torch Relay for Paris 2024 were released earlier this week, one small group was probably rubbing their hands in anticipation.

Paris 2024 officials have defended their decision to produce only 2,000 Olympic and Paralympic Torches and not offer them to bearers after the journey of the Olympic Flame next year.

Designer Mathieu Lehanneur predicts that his Olympic and Paralympic Torch for Paris 2024 will provide "the perfect Flame" after revealing that he was inspired by the organisers' efforts towards equality and by its projected sea journeys during the Relay.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Paris 2024 Olympic Flame "will light up emblematic historic and popular places" when it arrives in the heart the city.

Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay have insisted that the experience gained during the Tour de France will help them keep the Flame secure next year.

Paris 2024 director of celebrations Delphine Moulin has promised that next year's Olympic Torch Relay will be a "global adventure" as it was revealed that the Flame is to cross the Atlantic on a trimaran as part of the journey.