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Paris 2024 Olympic flame is preserved in a cauldron during the handover ceremony in Athens, Greece, April 26, 2024. /CFP
Three months before the opening of the Paris Olympics, the Games organizers received the flame on Friday in a handover ceremony hosted by the Hellenic Olympic Committee and held in the Athens' iconic Panathenaic Stadium where the first modern Games were held in 1896.
The flame entered the stadium carried by Greek athletics Olympian Antigoni Ntrismpioti, before it was passed on to Gabriella Papadakis, a French Olympic figure skating champion with Greek heritage, French Paralympic swimming champion Béatrice Hess, and Greek Olympic silver medalist in water polo, Ioannis Fountoulis. The high priestess lit the Panathenaic Stadium cauldron and used the flame to light up a final torch, which she handed to Greek Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos.
Paris 2024 chief Tony Estanguet received the torch from Capralos, which marked the end of the flame's 11-day travel in the Olympics Greek origin.
Leaving Greece on Saturday, the cauldron will travel on the Mediterranean Sea for 12 days as it heads for France's southern port city of Marseille on a 19th century sailing ship, and is expected to arrive on May 8 and welcomed by some 150,000 spectators in a ceremony at the Old Port of Marseille.
The Paris Olympic Games will run from July 26 to August 11.