French former canoeist and president of the organising committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024, Tony Estanguet, holds the torch during the Olympic flame handover ceremony at Panathenaic Stadium in Athens on 26 April 204. (Milos Bicanski/Getty Images)
The Olympic flame set sail on Saturday on its voyage to France on
board the Belem, the Torch Relay reaching its climax at the
revolutionary Paris Games opening ceremony along the river Seine on 26 July.
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