The route of the Olympic flame in France, before the Paris Games, will begin in the spring of 2024 in Marseille, the first stage of its journey across the country, the organizers announced on Friday.
"
It was a fairly natural and obvious choice
," Tony Estanguet, president of the Paris Olympics organizing committee (Cojo)
, told
AFP , hailing a city "
passionate about sport, warm, popular and multicultural
". and also evoking Marseille's link with Greece, the Massalia colony having been founded by Greeks around 600 BC
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