Olympic flame to take seaborne journey to 2024 Paris Games

The flame will depart Greece for the French city of Marseille, a former Greek colony founded 2,600 years ago.

MARSEILLE, France — The Olympic flame is going for a sail.

Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the  will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.

Paris organizers announced the flame’s journey on Friday at City Hall in Marseille, a former Greek colony founded 2,600 years ago.

According to tradition, the flame will be lit by the sun’s rays at a ceremony in Ancient Olympia. Then it

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