After sailing for 12 days in the Mediterranean Sea, the Olympic flame that was lit in Ancient Olympia on April 16 is to reach the port of Marseille on Wednesday, carried by the three-masted sailing ship "Belem", which was built in 1896, the year that the first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens.

The President of the Hellenic Olympic Committee, President of the European Olympic Committees and Member of the International Olympic Committee, Spyros Kapralos, sent a message of truce in his speech on Tuesday during the torch lighting ceremony held in Ancient Olympia for the Paris Olympic Games.