The Olympic flame from Greece will arrive at the Old Port of Marseille on May 8. Some 150,000 spectators will be there to celebrate her before her Tour de France.
10,000 French people, known or anonymous, will take turns for several weeks. The country will ignite as it passes, from Toulon to Lille, from Chamonix to Brest, from Guyana to New Caledonia. This flame should set the sacred fire in all the provinces of France, metropolitan and overseas. It will complete its journey on July 26, during the opening ceremony in the heart of Paris. If this obligation of non-aggression could be respected, it would already be the most beautiful medal of Paris 2024! Yves Thréard, president of the French Olympic Committee, says: "The Games are really beginning. The flame has left Olympia and is expected in France on May 7. "The torch relay was born with the Berlin Games, of sinister memory in Nazi Germany in 1936.