2024 Summer Olympics torch relay facts for kids
| Host city | Paris, France |
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| Countries visited | Greece, Italy, France |
| Start date | 16 April 2024 |
| End date | 26 July 2024 |
The 2024 Summer Olympic torch relay will run from 16 April 2024 until 26 July 2024. After it is lit in Olympia, Greece, the torch will then travel through Greece, arriving at Athens on 26 April. It will sail across the Mediterranean on the three-masted barque Belem to Marseille on 9 May and begin its travel across France. The French leg will end during the Opening Ceremony when the Olympic cauldron will be lit. It is expected that the Paris 2024 cauldron will be erected at the Jardins du Trocadéro stadium.
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Route in Greece
The flame was lit in Olympia on 16 April and will travel across Greece until it arrives in Athens on 26 April.
Route in France
Each day, the relay will cover a different territory. Several towns receive the flame, as well as one or two iconic places, such as historical places or natural landmarks. One or two team relays also take place: 24 participants, led by a captain and representing an Olympic or Paralympic french sports federation, carry the flame together for a leg. Each daily relay ends in a stage town, where a mini-cauldron is lit and celebrations take place.
Metropolitan leg (Part 1)
| Territory | Route | Map |
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| Marseille | 8 May 2024 (prologue): Marseille
9 May 2024 (day 1): Marseille
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| Var |
10 May 2024 (day 2): Toulon
Brignoles
Flassans-sur-Issole Hyères La Garde La Sayne-sur-Mer Les Salles-sur-Verdon Saint-Raphaël L'Almanarre and La Route du Sel Toulon |
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| Alpes-de-Haute-Provence |
11 May 2024 (day 3): Manosque
Barcelonnette
Colmars-les-Alpes Digne-les-Bains Forcalquier Moustiers-Sainte-Marie Sisteron (Citadel of Sisteron) Regional natural reserve of Verdon Manosque |
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| Bouches-du-Rhône |
12 May 2024 (day 4): Arles
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| Millau - Sète - Montpellier |
13 May 2024 (day 5): Montpellier
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| Corsica |
14 May 2024 (day 6): Bastia
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| Pyrénées-Orientales | ||
| Aude |
16 May 2024 (day 8): Carcassonne
Castelnaudary
Duilhac-sous-Peyrepertuse Gruissan (Plage des Chalets) Lagrasse Limoux Narbonne Cité de Carcassonne Carcassonne |
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| Haute-Garonne | ||
| Gers | ||
| Hautes-Pyrénées |
19 May 2024 (day 11): Tarbes
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| Pyrénées-Atlantiques | ||
| Dordogne |
22 May 2024 (day 13): Périgueux
Agonac
Bergerac Montignac-Lascaux Nontron Saint-Aulaye-Puymangou Sarlat-la-Canéda Dordogne basin Lascaux Périgueux |
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| Bordeaux and Libournais |
23 May 2024 (day 14): Bordeaux
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| Charente | ||
| Vienne |
25 May 2024 (day 16): Grand Poitiers-Futuroscope
Charroux
Château-Larcher Châtellerault Loudun Montmorillon Neuville-de-Poitou Poitiers (Palace of Poitiers) Grand Poitiers-Futuroscope |
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| Indre |
27 May 2024 (day 17): Châteauroux
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| Maine-et-Loire |
28 May 2024 (day 18): Angers
Baugé-en-Anjou
Chaudefonds-sur-Layon La Romagne Le Lion-d'Angers Montsoreau (Château de Montsoreau) Saint-Florent-le-Vieil Coteaux du Layon vineyard Angers |
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| Mayenne |
29 May 2024 (day 19): Laval
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| Calvados |
30 May 2024 (day 20): Caen
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| Manche |
31 May 2024 (day 21): Mont-Saint-Michel
Cherbourg-en-Cotentin
Granville Saint-Lô Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue Sainte-Mère-Église Villedieu-les-Poêles-Rouffigny Mont-Saint-Michel |
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| Ille-et-Vilaine |
1 June 2024 (day 22): Rennes
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| Deux-Sèvres | ||
| Vendée |
4 June 2024 (day 24): Les Sables-d'Olonne
Fontenay-le-Comte
La Pointe d'Arçay La Roche-sur-Yon Montaigu-Vendée Passage du Gois Puy du Fou Les Sables-d'Olonne |
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| Between Loire and Atlantique |
5 June 2024 (day 25): La Baule
Basse-Goulaine
Ingrandes-le-Fresne-sur-Loire Ligné Saint-Sébastien-sur-Loire Vallons-de-l'Erdre Vertou La Baule Bay La Baule-Escoublac |
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| Morbihan | ||
| Finistère |
7 June 2024 (day 27): Brest
Mont Saint-Michel de Brasparts
Plougastel-Daoulas Pointe de la Torche Pointe du Raz Port-la-Forêt Quimper Brest |
Overseas France leg
| Territory | Route | Map |
|---|---|---|
| French Guiana |
9 June 2024 (day 28): Cayenne
Camopi (Oyapock)
Kourou (Guiana Space Centre) Macouria Matoury Saint-Georges Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni Cayenne |
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| New Caledonia |
11 June 2024 (day 29): Noumea
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| Réunion |
12 June 2024 (day 30): Saint-Denis
Le Tampon
Saint-Benoît Saint-Paul Saint-Pierre Sainte-Suzanne Cité du Volcan Plaine des Sables Pointe de Langevin Saint-Denis |
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| French Polynesia |
13 June 2024 (day 31): Papeete
Teahupo'o
Papeete |
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| Guadeloupe |
15 June 2024 (day 32): Baie-Mahault
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| Martinique |
17 June 2024 (day 33): Fort-de-France
Le Diamant
Le Lamentin Le Robert Saint-Esprit Saint-Pierre (Mount Pelée) Sainte-Marie Schœlcher Fort-de-France |
Metropolitan leg (Part 2)
| Territory | Route | Map |
|---|---|---|
| Alpes-Maritimes |
18 June 2024 (day 34): Nice
Antibes
Cannes (Palais des Festivals et des Congrès) Grasse Juan-les-Pins Valberg Valdeblore (Col de la Colmiane) Villefranche-sur-Mer Nice |
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| Vaucluse |
19 June 2024 (day 35): Avignon
Apt
French Colorado L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue Orange (Roman Theatre of Orange) Sorgues Mont Ventoux Avignon |
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| Drôme |
20 June 2024 (day 36): Valence
Bourg-de-Péage
Dieulefit Hauterives Montélimar Pierrelatte Romans-sur-Isère Castle of Grignan Valence |
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| Vichy |
21 June 2024 (day 37): Vichy
Cusset
Le Mayet-de-Montagne Saint-Germain-des-Fossés Saint-Yorre Vichy Centre for Sports Resources, Expertise end Performance Vichy |
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| Loire |
22 June 2024 (day 38): Saint-Étienne
Charlieu
Feurs Firminy (Maison de la Culture de Firminy) Montbrison Roanne Saint-Chamond Stade Geoffroy-Guichard Saint-Étienne |
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| Haute-Savoie |
23 June 2024 (day 39): Chamonix
Annemasse
Cluses Excenevex Glières plateau Héry-sur-Alby Évian-les-Bains Lake Annecy Chamonix-Mont-Blanc |
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| Doubs |
25 June 2024 (day 40): Besançon
Baume-les-Dames
Chaux-Neuve (Chaux-Neuve jumping hills) Maîche Montbéliard Pontarlier Étalans Besançon |
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| European Collectivity of Alsace |
26 June 2024 (day 41): Strasbourg
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| Moselle |
27 June 2024 (day 42): Metz
Forbach
Meisenthal (Verrerie de Meisenthal) Sarreguemines Scy-Chazelles (Robert Schumann House) Thonville Tripoint France-Germany-Luxembourg Yutz Metz |
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| Haute-Marne |
28 June 2024 (day 43): Saint-Dizier
Bourbonne-les-Bains
Chaumont-la-Ville Colombey-les-Deux-Églises (Mémorial Charles-de-Gaulle) Froncles Langres Nogent Saint-Dizier |
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| Meuse |
29 June 2024 (day 44): Verdun
Bar-le-Duc
Commercy Gondrecourt-le-Château Lac de Madine Montmédy (Montmédy citadel) Verdun Memorial Verdun |
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| Marne |
30 June 2024 (day 45): Reims
Châlons-en-Champagne
Giffaumont-Champaubert Sainte-Menehould Sézanne Vitry-le-François Épernay (Avenue de Champagne) Reims |
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| Nord | ||
| Pas-de-Calais |
3 July 2024 (day 47): Lens-Liévin
Arras
Berck Boulogne-sur-Mer Calais Maisnil-lès-Ruitz Saint-Omer Louvre-Lens Stade Bollaert-Delelis Lens-Liévin |
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| Somme |
4 July 2024 (day 48): Amiens
Abbeville
Albert Doullens La Chaussée-Tirancourt Saint-Valery-sur-Somme Villers-Bretonneux Baie de Somme Amiens |
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| Seine-Maritime |
5 July 2024 (day 49): Le Havre
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| Eure |
6 July 2024 (day 50): Vernon
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| C'Chartres |
7 July 2024 (day 51): Chartres
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| Loir-et-Cher |
8 July 2024 (day 52): Blois
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| Loiret |
10 July 2024 (day 53): Orléans
Gien
Le Malesherbois Meung-sur-Loire Montargis Neuville-aux-Bois Sully-sur-Loire (Château de Sully-sur-Loire) Joan of Arc House Orléans |
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| Yonne | ||
| Côte-d'Or | ||
| Aube |
13 July 2024 (day 56): Troyes
Dolancourt
Ervy-le-Châtel Mesnil-Saint-Père Nogent-sur-Seine Romilly-sur-Seine Ville-sous-la-Ferté Lake of Orient Troyes |
Paris leg
Metropolitan leg (Part 3)
| Territory | Route | Map |
|---|---|---|
| Aisne |
17 July 2024 (day 59): Saint-Quentin
Château-Thierry
Guise (Guise familistère) Laon Monampteuil Soissons Villers-Cotterêts (Cité internationale de la langue française) Saint-Quentin |
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| Oise | ||
| Val-d'Oise |
19 July 2024 (day 61): Soisy-sous-Montmorency
Argenteuil
Auvers-sur-Oise Cergy Cormeilles-en-Parisis Deuil-la-Barre Eaubonne Enghien-les-Bains Ermont Franconville Garges-lès-Gonesse Méry-sur-Oise Pontoise Saint-Gratien Saint-Prix Sannois Sarcelles Théméricourt Soisy-sous-Montmorency |
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| Seine-et-Marne |
20 July 2024 (day 62): Meaux
Brou-sur-Chantereine
Chelles Fontainebleau (Palace of Fontainebleau) Lagny-sur-Marne Melun Pontault-Combault Provins Saint-Thibault-des-Vignes Torcy Vaires-sur-Marne Meaux |
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| Val-de-Marne |
21 July 2024 (day 63): Créteil
Brou-sur-Chantereine
Champigny-sur-Marne Chennevières-sur-Marne Fontenay-sous-Bois Joinville-le-Pont Maisons-Alfort Nogent-sur-Marne Orly Ormesson-sur-Marne Rungis (Rungis International Market) Saint-Maur-des-Fossés Villejuif Vincennes Vitry-sur-Seine Créteil |
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| Essonne |
22 July 2024 (day 64): Évry-Courcouronnes
Chamarande
Dourdan Draveil Étampes Marcoussis (National Rugby Centre) Massy Montgeron Palaiseau Vigneux-sur-Seine Évry-Courcouronnes |
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| Yvelines |
23 July 2024 (day 65): Versailles
Les Mureaux
Mantes-la-Ville Poissy Rambouillet Saint-Germain-en-Laye Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (Le Golf National) Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse Palace of Versailles Versailles |
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| Hauts-de-Seine |
24 July 2024 (day 66): Nanterre
Asnières-sur-Seine
Boulogne-Billancourt Châtenay-Malabry Clamart Colombes (Stade Yves-du-Manoir) Courbevoie Gennevilliers Issy-les-Moulineaux La Garenne-Colombes Le Plessis-Robinson Marnes-la-Coquette (Haras de Jardy) Meudon Rueil-Malmaison Sceaux Suresnes Sèvres Vaucresson Nanterre |
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| Seine-Saint-Denis |
25 July 2024 (day 67): La Courneuve
Aubervilliers
Aulnay-sous-Bois Bagnolet Bobigny Bondy Drancy Les Lilas Les Pavillons-sous-Bois Livry-Gargan Montreuil Neuilly-sur-Marne Noisy-le-Grand Noisy-le-Sec Pantin Pierrefitte-sur-Seine Romainville Sevran Stains Tremblay-en-France Canal de l'Ourcq Paris Aquatic Centre La Courneuve |
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