The Olympic flame of Games in Paris arrived this Wednesday in French territory, at the port of Marseillesin a lavish ceremony presided over by the president, Emmanuel Macronwhich was attended 150,000 men and a thousand ships.
Throughout the day, the Belem sailboat, which collected the Olympic fire twelve days before Piraeus, paraded its three masts off the coast of Marseille before entering the Old Port of the country’s second city amid widespread applause.
The organizers want to include many symbols in the ceremony, where they want to relaunch the popular enthusiasm for the Games that has not yet penetrated the population.
The sunny day was accompanied by a festive atmosphere and ended with some rain which meant that a beautiful rainbow could be seen over Marseille.
by boat, Olympic swimming champion Florent Manaudou passed the Olympic fire who traveled to a lamp in one of the torches with which he would make the journey to Paris.
The ship, the second largest sailboat in the country, approached the port at sunset and was received by the French Patrol, a formation of fighters that drew the Olympic rings with smoke in the city’s sky, which during the Games will host the cruise. trials.
A pyrotechnic show accompanied the ship’s last meters into port, while the city’s philharmonic orchestra played the notes of the tune that will accompany the Olympic events during the Games and La Marseillaise sung by the tenor who was already playing Naestro
When the ship was lowered, Manaudou came down with the torch and gave the first relay to Paralympic athlete Nantenin Keïtawhich he passed on to the rapper Jul, who was in charge of lighting the cauldron marking the arrival of the Olympic flame, which was lit on April 16 in Olympia.
The organizers have kept the identity of the person who will light the cauldron a secret and there has been speculation that it will be Zinedine Zidane, who hails from Marseille.
The ceremony gave way to a series of festivities, marked by a great concert.
The flame relay will begin traveling through French territory this Wednesday and will end on July 26 in Paris at the end of the opening ceremony.
Until then, he will travel in the arms of 10,000 relievers through the country’s 64 departments, including some overseas that he will also go by boat, in one of the trimarans that compete in round-the-world regattas .
The first relay, through the streets of Pariswill manage it Wednesday of some important sports personalities such as basketball players Tony Parker or Nando de Colo, the footballers Didier Drogba, Jean Pierre Papin, Éric di Meco or the current captain of Olympique de Marseille, Valentin Rongier, swimmers Fabien Gilot and Frédérick Bousquet or the swordsman Pascale Trinquet-Hachin.
The welcoming ceremony for the Olympic flame took place amid impressive security measures, with the deployment of 6,000 agents, the largest the country’s second city has ever known.
Source: La Verdad
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