Forecast cloudy skies could frustrate efforts to produce the flame in the customary fashion when the sun is used to ignite a silver torch.
Actress Mary Mina, playing a priestess, holds a torch with the flame during the final dress rehearsal of the flame lighting ceremony for the Paris Olympics, at the Ancient Olympia site in Greece
If that does not work, French organisers will get their flame from a backup that was successfully lit at a final rehearsal on Monday. From the ancient stadium in Olympia, a relay of torchbearers will carry the flame more than 5,000 kilometres through Greece until the handover to Paris Games organisers in Athens on April 26.
The next runner will be Laure Manaudou, a French swimmer who won three medals at Athens in 2004. She will hand over to senior European Union official Margaritis Schinas, a Greek.
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