Paris 2024 Olympic Flame-lighting and Handover Ceremonies

On Tuesday 16 April 2024 at 10:30 CEST, the Olympic flame for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 will be lit in ancient Olympia.

The Olympic flame will firstly be carried through Greece and will arrive in Athens for the Handover Ceremony with a delegation from the Paris 2024 Organising Committee at the Panathenaic Stadium on Friday 26 April at 17:30 CEST.

Following the handover, the flame will spend the night at the French Embassy in Athens, before boarding the three-masted “Belem” ship the following day to head for Marseille, France, where it will arrive on 8 May.

The media accreditation for both these events is being handled by the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC). Please contact the HOC via press@hoc.gr if you wish to attend and note that the deadline for registration is Friday 15 March.

Olympic Channel Services (OCS) will produce live coverage of the Flame-lighting and Handover Ceremonies.

The live broadcast feeds (with graphics in English and the Olympic rings at the top left) for both events will be offered free of charge to the media and distributed. Advanced signal booking is required, and must be made at least one week prior to the start of transmission. Booking will begin on Monday 18 March.

You can find more information in the Live Broadcast Feed Technical Details (new version to come, including booking reference numbers and contact details of the distribution partner).

All usage by non-media rights-holders and bona fide media organisations will be subject to the News Access Rules Applicable to the Olympic Torch Relay of the Olympic Games Paris 2024.

The IOC will also provide video news releases via the IOC Newsroom platform.

During the relay, 10,000 torchbearers will carry the Olympic flame through more than 400 towns and cities in 65 territories, including in six overseas regions, before the Opening Ceremony on 26 July.

The International Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit, civil, non-governmental, international organisation made up of volunteers which is committed to building a better world through sport. It redistributes more than 90 per cent of its income to the wider sporting movement, which means that every day the equivalent of USD 4.2 million goes to help athletes and sports organisations at all levels around the world.

Source IOC