Italian organisers of the 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo has launched a search to find producers for the Opening and Closing Ceremonies and Torch Relays in three years time.

When details of the Olympic Torch Relay for Paris 2024 were released earlier this week, one small group was probably rubbing their hands in anticipation.

Paris 2024 officials have defended their decision to produce only 2,000 Olympic and Paralympic Torches and not offer them to bearers after the journey of the Olympic Flame next year.

Designer Mathieu Lehanneur predicts that his Olympic and Paralympic Torch for Paris 2024 will provide "the perfect Flame" after revealing that he was inspired by the organisers' efforts towards equality and by its projected sea journeys during the Relay.

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo has promised the Paris 2024 Olympic Flame "will light up emblematic historic and popular places" when it arrives in the heart the city.

Organisers of the Paris 2024 Olympic Torch Relay have insisted that the experience gained during the Tour de France will help them keep the Flame secure next year.

Paris 2024 director of celebrations Delphine Moulin has promised that next year's Olympic Torch Relay will be a "global adventure" as it was revealed that the Flame is to cross the Atlantic on a trimaran as part of the journey.

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.

Paris 2024 have named Olympic swimming gold medallists Laure Manaudou and brother Florent Manaudou as super ambassadors of the Olympic Torch Relay. 

French organisers are believed to be planning for the Flame to burn at the Eiffel Tower during next year's Olympic Games in Paris. 

If all goes to plan, they will be watching the horizon in Marseille a year from now for the first sight of the tall ship Belem as it brings the Olympic Flame. 

Marseille Mayor Benoît Payan has announced that the Olympic Flame for Paris 2024 is to arrive in the city on May 8 next year and promised “a great popular festival," to mark the occasion.

The detailed route of the Olympic Torch for Paris 2024 is set to be unveiled in June at the Sorbonne in Paris, the very place where the revival of the Olympic Games was agreed in 1894.

Paris 2024 has announced that world-renowned designer Mathieu Lehanneur will create the Olympic and Paralympic Torches and Cauldrons.

The Olympic flame for Paris 2024 will be transported from Greece in a three-masted tall ship which will arrive in France at the Old Port of Marseille, venue for next year’s sailing competition, French organisers announced today.