2024 Summer Olympics Torch Relay Team. The first torch for the paris 2024 olympic torch relay will be lit by the sun’s rays on 16 april 2024 during a ceremony in the sanctuary of olympia, greece, where the ancient olympics were once held. The olympic flame has been lit in olympia, greece, kicking off the torch relay for the 2024 paris olympics.

About 10,000 bearers will carry the torch which will pass through more than 450 towns in mainland and overseas france until the games’ opening ceremony in paris. The first torch for the paris 2024 olympic torch relay will be lit by the sun’s rays on 16 april 2024 during a ceremony in the sanctuary of olympia, greece, where the ancient olympics were once held.