Tony Estanguet, President of Paris 2024, right, holds the Olympic flame while Spyros Capralos, head of Greece's Olympic Committee, left, applauds during the flame handover ceremony at Panathenaic stadium, where the first modern games were held in 1896, in Athens, Friday, April 26, 2024. On Saturday the flame will board the Belem, a French three-masted sailing ship, built in 1896, to be transported to France. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)