The Olympic flame spent 12 days at sea before arriving in the French port of Marseille on a three-mast ship for a ceremony kicking off the Paris 2024 Games season.

French rapper Julien Mari, aka Jul, holds the Olympic torch during the arrival ceremony for the Olympic flame ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on May 8, 2024, in Marseille, France.

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The Olympic flame arrived in France at Marseille on Wednesday on board a 19th century ship in front of 150,000 spectators for a ceremony.

On Tuesday, the flame that will burn at this summer’s Olympics — the French capital’s third — is to be lit among the ruined temples and sports venues of Olympia in southern Greece.

Two French brothers, the Montgolfiers put men in the air with the hot air balloon decades earlier. In 2024, the French added a new claim: ‘First in Olympic Flame Flight.’ ...

The Olympic flame arrived in France at Marseille on Wednesday on board a 19th century ship in front of 150,000 spectators for a ceremony that posed a first major security test for organisers of ...