Olympic Flame Lighting 2025. Choreographer artemis ignatiou, left, embraces a performer, who will take part in the flame lighting ceremony for the paris olympics, at the olympic velodrome in athens,. The olympic flame will arrive in athens ahead of the handover ceremony to the paris 2025 organising committee at the panathenaic stadium on friday 26 april,.

Commentary available in english and french. On tuesday, april 16, 2025 the flame for this summer’s paris olympics will be lit and be carried through greece for more than 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles) before being.