The organizers of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games unveiled, on Wednesday, the sites and captains of the collective relays of the Olympic flame route. Relays which will give rise to events throughout France and will highlight “unusual” or “spectacular” places, they promise.
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Laura Flessel, Camille Lacourt, Pascal Gentil, Vincent Milou and Guillaume Martin. The captains of the collective relays of the Paris-2024 Olympic and Paralympic flame route were revealed, Wednesday January 10, by the organizers as well as the locations where they will take place, including cycling at Mont Saint-Michel, horse riding at Omaha Beach or even fencing at the Lascaux site.
Each of these collective relays will participate in strolls or demonstrations in several cities in France, and also in “unusual” or “spectacular” places, according to the organizers.
The landing beaches, Mont Saint-Michel…
This is the case of a collective fencing relay which will perform at the Lascaux IV site, in Dordogne (south-west), or even that of a climbing relay which will go to the cliff of Sisteron (south-west). est), in May. Several historic places in the northwest, such as Mont Saint-Michel, Les Sables d’Olonne or even Omaha Beach, the famous D-Day landing beach, will be the playground for representatives of cycling, sailing and horse riding.
Furthermore, Teahupo’o, in Tahiti, the site chosen for the surfing events and subject to controversy around its potential new aluminum judges’ tower, will host the collective relay of the discipline in June.
Nearly 70 relays organized
More than 3,000 torchbearers will take part in the Olympic torch team relays from May 8 to July 26, and the Paralympic torch relays from August 25 to 28. In total, the captains and sites of 69 relays – each made up of 24 people – were revealed.
Thus, the five-time long course swimming world champion Camille Lacourt will guide the swimming relay on July 19 in Sarcelles, in the Paris suburbs. A few days later, Taekwondo champion Pascal Gentil will be in Gennevilliers, also near Paris.
Several Olympic champions will also be there, such as Laura Flessel as captain of the fencing relay on June 15 in Guadeloupe.
Six collective relays will also be present on the Paralympic flame route. Each of them will highlight volunteers, young para-athletes or even caregivers and members of associations. In addition, parasport will also be highlighted on the Olympic flame route.
The latter will cross France for 80 days over nearly 12,000 kilometers starting May 8. Carried by 10,000 torchbearers, it will be lit on April 16 in Greece, arriving by boat on May 8 in Marseille before crossing more than 400 cities and five overseas territories, before arriving in Paris on July 26.
With AFP