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The Olympic flame crossed the capital from 1:00 p. m. to 11:00 p. m. , passing by the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the National Assembly, the Place Vendôme, the Louvre Museum and the Place du Colonel-Fabien.
Thank you for following this Olympic day of Los Angeles. Tomorrow, the angels will rise early, the angels will start at 8:15 a. m. from the Porte degli Angeles Chapel.
Have an afternoon!
The flame will spend the evening in the golden rooms of City Hall, where the public will be able to watch it throughout the afternoon, from 00:30 to 05:00. After the Marseillaise, a fireworks show at the Eiffel Tower will follow. , conceived as a series of “tributes to the capital and the values of Olympism”, according to the Paris City Council.
The end of the first day of the Parisian relay is approaching. Lighting of the cauldron soon, and fireworks for this July 14 in a few moments.
For today, in a few moments it will be Yannick Noah. As for the last bearer of the torch, at the opening rite on Friday, July 26, the predictions come true, but it is still a kept secret.
You beat us! In fact, the Chinese star also appeared a few minutes ago on the streets of Paris.
Justin, Christelle, Samia and Amara had come to City Hall to watch the flame light the Olympic cauldron. And then, these four Parisian friends discovered, when they arrived at the esplanade at night, the classical music concert presented in collaboration with France. Télévisions and Radio France. “So we stayed,” explains Christelle.
They were looking to see the relay in front of the Pantheon. And then, too many people, who also arrived a little late, fell backwards, glasses of beer in hand, at the last level of the torch address on July 14, a national holiday.
“We think it’s great,” they say together, also relieved by the result of the second round of legislative elections, a week ago, which allows them to focus on the Games. “The RN did not pass, “We are taking charge of our lives and our city,” Samia, a young woman in her fifties, also dares. “We were worried for two weeks, today we are partying,” says his girlfriend, the youngest of the group. The group, with the glass almost empty, waiting for the flame and the fireworks, the final bouquet of the day.
Having just brandished the flame from the most sensitive of his two meters while walking along the Seine, French basketball player Rudy Gobert is one of the wonderful visitors to this Parisian relay. Later, Nicolas Batum, his teammate on the French national team, will be the penultimate replacement before the lighting of the cauldron through former tennis player and singer Yannick Noah.
In the meantime, you can (re)read our montage with Rudy Gobert from our “Olympic Design” series.
A large stage was set up in front of the Town Hall and a large crowd came to listen to the Radio France concert, which began with “La damnations de Faust”, a Hungarian march by Berlioz. The classic July 14 concert was relocated in front of the city corridor, where the Olympic cauldron will be lit after 11 p. m. until the last relay of the day, while the Champ de Mars is inaccessible due to the preparation of the Olympic venues.
Shortly before the start of the concert, presenter Stéphane Bern had presented the evening’s programme and brought Anne Hidalgo and Tony Estanguet, Mayor of Paris and President of the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games, onto the stage. To be here is to be Make a dream come true!Enjoy this moment of happiness that will do us good!Everyone will keep those photographs in their hearts for a long time,” said the socialist deputy.
Tony Estanguet also praised: “It’s going to be a wonderful moment for the whole country. We are looking forward to welcoming the athletes who arrive. “
They didn’t need it. Their idol was in front of them, all smiles, a little embarrassed by the hysterical crises of his fans. Surrounded by about thirty CRS, Kim Soek-Jin, a member of the Korean organization BTS, carried the flame to the façade of the Louvre, shortly after 8:00 p. m. Thousands of people, mostly young women, came to cheer on the singer. “It’s unreal, I need to cry,” Arielle says. “This is the happiest day of my life,” Anissa said. “It’s so beautiful that I need to die,” Eve said. “I can’t,” Lamia said. During this relay, the Olympic flame was relegated to the background.
Inside the museum, the dancer Marie-Claude Pietragalla took some magical steps with the lit torch in the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.
The flame will enter the Pyramid after, among others, the replacement of Korean K-pop star Kim Seok-jin. Among the expected replacements: the dancer and choreographer Marie-Claude Pietragalla, the fencer Enzo Lefort and also the artist JR.
Some arrived at nine in the morning so as not to miss the only star of the day who speaks to them: Kim Seok-Jin. A member of the Korean organization BTS, this bunch of fans, French and foreign, gather at the back of the security barriers just a stone’s throw from the façade of the Louvre. We don’t care about the flame, we need to see Jin,” says one organization. “No, first Jin, then he calls her,” says another. Come on, let’s say the flame and then Jin. »
Korean flags, paper hearts on which Jin is written, these absolute enthusiasts only hope to catch a glimpse of the star who, according to them, has not been in France since June 19, 2019. They are only interested in one question: “Do you know? ” If you are going to stop by here?
His replacement is scheduled for 8:20 p. m. at the Louvre Museum.
Around 8:15 p. m. !
In the Place du Colonel-Fabien, the crowd, in spite of everything, is colorful and cheerful. A level was installed in the center of the square, in front of the bubble of the French Communist Party headquarters designed by Niemeyer. Great sound, basses and other people moving waving “Ville de Paris” flags. Some symptoms of “Paris host city and welcoming land” that the city distributed before the arrival of the flame.
On one side of the square, in tight lines, spectators wait. Among them, a small group of Jamaicans who had come for the Olympic Games, holding a long pennant with the colors of their team. Derek Fair, 56, an American Airlines employee, explains that he and his friends have already done a previous tour but have not noticed anything: “There is a good atmosphere here. It’s a national holiday and we’re happy to be here. “
The flame bearer passes under the braves and the foul continues in a procession that does not prevent turning. The sound formula has introduced Free From Desire, via Gala, and the DJ says, “Make a little noise for the flame! »
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It will be in the Plaza del Coronel-Fabien between 7 and 7 p. m. and 7. 15 pm, as it runs between Avenue Trudaine and the Louvre Museum, passing through Place Vendôme (7. 50 pm). It will arrive at the Plaza del Ayuntamiento around 11:00 p. m.
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The call is numerous, so it dispels concerns: the singer Pierre Garnier will bring the flame closer at around 7:50 p. m. on rue Scribe, between the Opéra Garnier and the Madeleine church.
It was at the end of a collective relay of PSG, in which Blaise Matuidi, world champion in 2018, carried the Olympic flame, surrounded by workers and former workers of the capital club, such as the foreigner Laura Georges, who on 3. The convoy of the “commitment” day ended, on Trudaine Street, with the singing of the followers Tous ensemble sur chanta. We remind you that the Parc des Princes, the stadium of the Paris Saint-Germain players, will host football matches during the Olympic Games.
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After touring some fifty departments and territories, it is the turn of Parisians to see the Olympic flame, two weeks before the start of the Olympic Games. The Avenue des Champs-Elysées, the National Assembly, the Arab World Institute or even the Roland-Garros Olympic site and Place Vendôme. . . For two days, the Olympic chimney runs through the host city, before resting there definitively from Friday, July 26. day of the opening rite.
On this occasion, we invite you to experience this special day with us. In the program, numerous facts and testimonies told through our hounds on the streets of Paris.
You can participate in this live stream on the day by sending us your comments and questions about the llama, its adventure, and more broadly, the Olympic Games.
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