Urgent: Paris 2024 Olympic flame handed over to French organizers


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  • Saturday, 27 Apr 2024

ATHENS, April 26 (Xinhua) -- The Paris Olympic flame was handed to the French organizers on Friday as a traditional ceremony was held at the well-known Panathenaic Stadium which hosted the opening and closing ceremony of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896.

The Olympic flame arrived in Athens after an 11-day relay in Greece and ended with Paris 2024 organizing committee president Tony Estanguet receiving the torch from Greek Olympic Committee president Spyros Capralos.

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