The flame will depart Greece for the French city of Marseille, a former Greek colony founded 2,600 years ago.
MARSEILLE, France — The Olympic flame is going for a sail.
Instead of arriving overland, the symbolic flame alighting the will take to the seas from its birthplace in Greece, arriving aboard a three-masted tall ship in the French port of Marseille.
Paris organizers announced the flame’s journey on Friday at City Hall in Marseille, a former Greek colony founded 2,600 years ago.
According to tradition, the flame will be lit by the sun’s rays at a ceremony in Ancient Olympia. Then it
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