The Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 is set to be lit at Olympia in Greece on April 16 next year before departing for France around one week later.

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.

Marseille has stated its intention to become the first city in France to host the Olympic Flame, starting off the Torch Relay on home soil in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.

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.

A hearing involving three human rights protesters who interrupted the lighting of the Olympic Flame in Athens last October has been delayed following accusations that Greek authorities did not want to embarrass China on the eve of the Winter Olympics here.

Frontline pandemic workers are set to carry the Beijing 2022 Flame as it begins the domestic phase of its journey.

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

The three protesters who waved Tibetan flags and a banner as the Beijing 2022 Olympic Flame was being kindled in Ancient Olympia have been detained overnight and are to appear before a court insidethegames understands.

Short track speed skater Li Jiajun, a four-time Olympian, has been named as the first Chinese Torchbearer for the Beijing 2022 Flame.

With only three days to go until the Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony for Beijing 2022, performers were forced to rehearse inside by a prolonged downpour which briefly flooded the grounds of the Ancient Stadium in Olympia.

The Olympic Flame for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics is set to begin its journey from Ancient Olympia, watched only by officials and guests due to the "dangers posed by COVID-19".

Tokyo Governor Yoriko Koike is set to welcome the Olympic Flame tomorrow as it reaches the end of its 121-day journey around Japan.

The Torch Relay has continued its journey towards the Olympic Stadium in very subdued circumstances with another "alternative lighting" celebration.