Less than three and a half months before the opening of the Paris 2024 Games, the Olympic flame will be lit on Tuesday in Ancient Olympia, Greece, to begin a journey that will take it from the Acropolis to French Polynesia before arriving in the French capital on 26 July.

The decision was taken by the Board of the European Olympic Academies (EOA) at the EOA Congress in Vilnius, Lithuania. The event, organised by the Lithuanian Olympic Academy (LOA), was attended by delegates from 22 European Olympic Academies, as well as representatives from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Olympic Academy (IOA) and the European Olympic Committees (EOC).

The Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 is set to be lit at Olympia in Greece on April 16 next year before departing for France around one week later.

A bronze medal from the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 is anticipated to auction for as much as £25,000 (€30,000, $29,400).

There comes a point in the life of every host city when the idea that they are about to host the Olympic Games becomes frighteningly real. 

The flags of Russia and Belarus have been lowered at the premises of the International Olympic Academy in Ancient Olympia in protest against what it described as "the barbaric invasion" of Ukraine.

The International Olympic Committee’s Presidential spokesman Mark Adams has brushed aside concerns about possible protests at the Olympic Torch Lighting Ceremony in Olympia for Beijing 2022.

With only three days to go until the Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony for Beijing 2022, performers were forced to rehearse inside by a prolonged downpour which briefly flooded the grounds of the Ancient Stadium in Olympia.

Wildfires close to the site of the ancient Olympic Games in Olympia have forced the evacuation of villagers.

A display of prizes presented to the first Olympic marathon champion have finally been put on public display at the Museum of the History of the Olympic Games in Antiquity in Ancient Olympia.

A flame has been lit successfully in the penultimate rehearsal of the Tokyo 2020 flame lighting Ceremony here in Olympia.

Tokyo 2020 have given their backing to the decision of Greek organisers to hold the lighting of the Olympic flame here without spectators on Thursday (March 12) as part of their measures against the spread of coronavirus.

Martin Fuchs was a dramatic winner of the International Equestrian Federation Jumping World Cup Western European League at London’s Olympia tonight.

An ancient prize awarded to an 1896 Olympic champion has been returned to Greece after its discovery amongst the treasures of a Nazi archaeologist.

Eighty years after it was released, Olympia, the epic film of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, remains one of the greatest sports films of all time.