Paris Olympics 2024: Who lit the Olympic Flame? The Complete Relay of Olympic Torch to Cauldron

The opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics 2024 concluded with lighting up the cauldron at the heart of the city.

After a scintillating course of the team introduction and cultural event traversing the river Seine, the beginning of the final phase started beneath the Eiffel Tower. The world witnessed an engaging journey of the Olympic flame which was then lit up at the very end to officially start the Olympics.

Paris Olympics 2024: 24 Athletes took part in Flame Run to Cauldron

A total of 24 athletes took part in the journey of the Olympic Flame from the Eiffel Tower to the Cauldron, which is located in the Jardin des Tuileries.

Paris Olympics 2024: The journey to the Cauldron - As it Happened

A masked personnel, who was seen running with the flame throughout the event handed over the flame to French football great Zinedine Zidane.

Zidane took the flame and handed it over to Rafael Nadal. The Spanish tennis star then took on a boat along with Carl Lewis, Serena Williams and Nadia Comaneci. As the river journey ended, the quartet handed over the flame to French athlete Amelie Mauresmo.

Mauresmo then took the stairs and after her stint, handed it over to French basketball legend Tony Parker. The duo then started jogging near the Louvre.

The duo then handed it over to three French Paralympians. After that, the flame was relayed among a dozen athletes of France. The final turn came to France's oldest living Olympic Champion Charles Coste.

Coste, who is 100 years old, won the Gold medal in 1948 Olympics in Cycling. He took the flame from a wheelchair and passed it on to the final duo.

Paris Olympics 2024: Who lit up the Olympic Torch?

It is French judo legend Teddy Riner and sprinter Marie-Jose Perec who lit up the Paris Olympics 2024 cauldron. The duo took the final walk and ignited the cauldron as it floated in the night sky of Paris in an air balloon, with the Eiffel Tower at its back.