By Riley Overend on SwimSwam With less than three months remaining until the Summer Games, the Paris 2024 Olympic flame set sail from Athens on Saturday en route to the southern French city of Marseille. The flame was lit in ancient Olympia two weeks ago, with Paris Olympic organizers receiving the flame on Friday following an 11-day Greek relay leg. French Paralympic swimming champion Beatrice Hess participated in the handover ceremony at Athens’ Panathenaic Stadium, which hosted the first modern Olympics in 1896. Laure Manaudou, the first woman to ever win Olympic gold in swimming (400 free in 2004), was the symbolic French recipient of the Olympic flame in Greece. View this
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