will be 10,000 torchbearers to carry the Olympic flame through some sixty French departments between May and July 2024explained this Tuesday in a press conference the organizers of Paris Olympics.
Olympic swimming champions Laure and Florent Manaudou was named ‘captain’ of the French Olympic torch relay, along with Dimitri Pavadé (long jump) and Mona Francis (paratriathlon), organizers said.
The flame, lit in Olympia (Greece) according to tradition, will arrive at sea in Marseille on May 8, 2024 aboard the three-masted ship Bélem.
He will then begin a tour of France until July 26, 2024, the opening night of the Paris Olympics. The president of the organizing committee, Tony Estanguet, He clarified that the final location of the lighting “has not been decided yet” and “the Eiffel Tower has not been chosen as the place for lighting the cauldron.”
New to this French edition is the collective relay: a group of 24 people, including a runner, representing a sports federation, for example, can take part. There will be 3,000 collective and 7,000 individual torchbearers, including people with disabilities and an equal number of men and women under the age of 15.
Each reliever will carry the fire for about 4 minutes in a 200-meter run.
One third of the torchbearers will be chosen by the Organizing Committee and the sports movement, another third by the sponsors of the torch relay, BPCE (banking and insurance) and Coca-Cola, another third by other Olympic partners and 10 Final % for the territories which hosts fire.
They may be sports instructors, great champions, local personalities, artisans with “special knowledge” or “committed” people.
The route will be known in three weeks
BPCE will launch its selection on June 1 and Coca in July. Most will be known in early 2024, but the names of the biggest champions and personalities will be known over the months, along with the top-secret finalist.
According to IOC (International Olympic Committee) rules, current elected officials and religious personalities cannot carry the flame.
Details of the relay route will be revealed on June 23. It will cross 64 French territories, 54 metropolitan departments, 5 foreign territories and 5 territories, such as Montpellier, of cities that wanted to participate but did not of departments. Some of the departments consider the amount of 180,000 euros prohibitive.
Asked about security around the relay, LAME explained that there will be “a traveling bubble” around the fire provided by the State (gendarmerie, police), to which additional local security forces will be added in each territory.
Source: La Verdad
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